Almotamar.net - Head of the Information Office at the General People's Congress (GPC) Tareq al-Shamy said Monday the unity of the homeland is bigger than the political parties and partisanship has acquired its legitimacy with the establishment of the unity on 22 may 1990. Consequently, he added, parties or partisanship that threaten disintegrate the homeland and target its interests and unity they lose their legitimacy that came with the reunification of the homeland and they need to be reconsidered as they have violated the bases that granted them legitimacy . Democracy is not sabotage and dismemberment of the homeland. It is not the instigation of sedition and conflicts and exciting hatred among the society in addition to fomenting secessionist tendencies.

Mr al-Shamy added, "The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) are they that excluded themselves from the political process and tried to impede the democratic course and performance of constitutional institutions. They have refused to indulge into dialogue on the system of comprehensive political reforms, whether those related to the constitutional amendments concerning the development of the political system in Yemen or regarding the legal amendments on the transfer to the local rule, development of political parties and organisations law, the law of the press and publications and the laws concerning enhancement of rights and freedoms. The JMP also attempted the approval of the law of general elections and referendum and the formation of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) despite of the big concessions the GPC offered and the opportunities the parliament granted to the political forces and the extension of its sessions many times for fifty days for the first time in its history, but without reaching a result."

The GPC senior information official has affirmed that leaderships of the JMP had proposed for postponement of the elections and those proposals were rejected. Al-Shamy called the attention that the JMP intentioned instigation of seditions, deceiving the awareness and the support for the acts aimed at the homeland's unity, security, stability are acts and practices would negatively boomerang the JMP.