Local Councils Excluded from Election
May 5, 2008
Alsahwa.net- Sources of the ruling party, GPC, have affirmed that severe disagreements intensified in the wake of declaring the ruling party’s candidates for governor elections which to be held on May 17.The sources said that Robaizi tribes close down GPC headquarters in Shabwa governorates in protest at excluding three of their elected local councils from electing governors.
189 nomination requests for governor elections, among them 6 woman
Thursday, 08-May-2008
Almotamar.net - While the deadline for receiving application to nominations for governor elections in Yemen is the evening of Thursday, the number of applicants has until Wednesday evening reached 189 applications. Meanwhile, teams affiliate of civil society organisations have begun the process of observation of procedures progress after the supervising committees at the Ministry of Local Administration has given more than 42 observers from the organisations special cards for facilitating their work and that is in enhancement of the pursuit of transparency in the first elections of competitive elections of governors of provinces.
Committees supervising elections all over he governorates in Yemen have until Wednesday evening received 189 nomination applications for the posts of the capital mayor and governors of provinces, among them 6 women.
Eight Withdraw in Favor of GPC Candidate, in Dhalie no less
Almotamar.net - Eight candidates applied to nomination for elections of governors in al-Dhalie governorate have Thursday withdrawn their nomination in favour of the candidate of the General People’s Congress (GPC) Ali Qassem Talib. Chairman of the supervising committee told almotamar.net that a meeting convened the applicants to nomination and there they announced their withdrawal from nomination by their own will and out of conviction in favour of the GPC candidate as being among the efficient leading personalities that has been serving the governorate.
They considered the choice of the GPC of the candidate Talib as cutting the road to the overbidding as he is a personality entertaining unanimity of the population of the governorate.
