JMP reiterates the need for political change [Archives:2006/958/Local News]
By: Nashwan Dammaj
IBB, June 22 ) Timed to coincide with preparations for September's presidential and local elections, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) launched election activities from the Ibb governorate.
Attended by Islah (Reform) and Yemeni Socialist members of parliament, and political personalities, a public convention assembled in the Al-Sayani and Jiblah districts. Dr. Mansour Al-Zindani, member of parliament, delivered a speech during both activities. He pointed out that the project of political reform submitted by the JMP, aimed at getting Yemen out of the dark cave that the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) party has put it.
“JMP is determined to hold the ruling party accountable according to the constitution, whatever the cost may be,” said Al-Zindani. He noted that “the constitution that tens of thousands of Yemenis have sacrificed their lives for, is not activated. The government is in every respect responsible for all that, as it has reduced the law to the minimum.”
Al-Zindani went on to say, “the ruling [GPC] party, further, has monopolized all state resources for its own interests, in addition to monopolizing [government] jobs even at the level of headmasters. It also has nationalized all wealth, ministries, and public institutions, and all these infringements are considered treason for the constitution, and subsequently for the country.”
Al-Zindani further pointed out that “the ruling [GPC] party wants to force history's wheel back, considering itself to be the law and the constitution, but he time [has come] to let [the GPC] know that the Yemeni people have started to lose their patience. JMP, before its followers, has decided to struggle by all peaceful means until the Yemeni people are able to govern themselves by themselves.”
“JMP, once security and impartiality are ensured, [will] take part in the upcoming elections and with a single candidate and single program supported by all. JMP, according to its program, will accept only a strong candidate with high competence. The last choice, which is not favored, is that of boycotting [the elections] and we will resort to [a boycott] only when forced to do so, and when we see we have no other choice.
“For, participating under these conditions, will make us then a false witnesses ither we [will] have safe and impartial elections without forgery, or we will leave them [the GPC] to enter elections alone. We will peacefully struggle through demonstrations and sit-ins until we impose our constitutional rights. We did accept dictators in the past, but we will no [longer] accept them in the future,” said Al-Zindani.
Abdullah Mohsen Al-Sharai, Director of the Political Unit of the Yemeni Socialist Party, stressed that the “JMP, capturing the admiration of all Arab political parties, is a political conglomeration where extreme right meets extreme left. Now, they share the same trench which is that of Yemen, and the JMP is a fruit of the struggle and an achievement of Jarallah Omar, who sacrificed his life for its sake.”
Additionally, Al-Sharai noted that “as heard and watched, today's address on unity and its achievement, a multiparty system, and democracy confiscates history, for everything, starting from unity and ending in revolutions, is attributed to the only the leader and no one else. This is a confiscation and deformation of history.
“For all of us know that unity, democracy, and polarity were all achieved through the struggle of a group of noble Yemeni people, above all the Yemeni Socialist Party. The ruling [GPC] party wants to generalize such sophistries at all levels, thinking that the Yemeni people have lost their memories and are unaware of what is going on round them,” said Al-Sharai.
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