Opposition parties reject SECs ultimatum [Archives:2002/33/Local News]

The Yemeni Joint Meeting Opposition Parties responded on Saturday to the Supreme Elections Committees (SEC) ultimatum dated August 3 to submit the lists of participants in the electoral committees. The SEC called upon the opposition parties, earlier in this month, to send their lists of the nominees to be part of the electoral committees according to their own percentages based on last election. In its letter, the opposition parties said the SEC had undertaken a baseless criterion for the parties participation in the elections and ignored the oppositions views entirely.
The letter confirmed the opposition parties disapproval of SECs request and called for the continuation of political dialogue between parties. This disagreement between the opposition parties and SEC resulted in delaying the registration phase for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2003 to October instead of September.
It is worth mentioning that the elections registration phase will be carried out in an entirely different way compared to last year. The new lists of voters will be prepared from scratch and will not depend on old lists which will be totally abolished. The ruling party was accused of including more than 500,000 false names in the last elections, while Islah was accused of having around 250,000 false names as well.

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