Attacks on Opposition Parties Continue
SANA’A- The Political Parties Committee has announced that it has warned the People’s Forces Union, the Liberation Front Party, and the Yemeni Coalition Party not to delay presenting their final accounts and notified them to register their accounts at the committee registry, as required by the political parties law.
Mohammed Abdulmalik Al-Motwakel, secretary general of the People’s Forces Union, said that the party had not received any such warnings, and described the committee’s comments as a political attack by the authorities on the party. He said it was a reaction to the party’s position over the government’s financial and administrative reform program and its stance on events in Saada.
As for the reason why the party did not present its final accounts to the committee, he asked: “How can they expect us to submit the final accounts while our headquarters are still occupied and all our documents, including accounts and deeds, are being held?”
“Throughout the past fifteen years,” he added, “the government has committed itself to paying party allowances, but the Union has not received one rial,” Al-Motwakel said.
Al-Motwakel said the warnings were just threats to absolve the Union. He said that if the party were absolved, it would justify the emergence of a new union leadership outside the country.
He said that instead of the party newspaper, (al-Shoura) the new leadership would establish a TV channel or radio station. “The government would be giving us every reason to do so.”
heh imagine what al-Khaiwani could do with a TV station
