Yemen ruling party confirms elections date
The Source: SANA'A/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 14/07/2010
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The ruling General People Congress party has decided to hold the next parliamentary polls on April 27, 2011, and refrain from delaying the elections under any circumstances.
In remarks to media, Abdullah Ghanem, the head of the politburo of the GPC, has said that the GCC had took a decisive and serious decision in this respect.
The GPC's officials will hold a series of meetings with politicians and parliamentary blocs to discuss proposed constitutional modifications, as well as for voting on an electoral law.
Ghanem indicated that the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), had rejected holding official dialogue with the ruling party."The opposition will not get involved in dialogue, thus there is no other option but holding the parliamentary polls, that will be the last lesson to be taught for the Joint parties", Ghanem was quoted by Kuwait News Agency.In February 2008, the GPC and the JMP signed an accord that stipulated delaying the parliamentary polls, originally due on April 27, 2009, for two years, introducing amendments in the constitution, the political system and the polling law.The dialogue between the two sides had snagged after the opposition pressed for the release of imprisoned political activists. The rulers set free some of the prisoners, but the opposition also called for participation of the southern leadership in exile in the political decision-making system, a call that was rejected.The JMP is comprised of the Socialist Party, the Islamic Reform grouping known as Islah, al Haq, a predominantly Zaidi party as well as Nasserite and Baathist parties.
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