Almotamar.net - Speaker of the Yemeni parliament Yahya al-Raie and the head of the General People’s Congress (GPC)’s parliamentary majority Sultan al-Barakani have clarified Wednesday on the GPC’s bloc presentation on Saturday of a proposal for constitutional amendments.
According leaked information, the amendments aim at political reforms among them the legislative system and he local rule.
According the article 158 of the Yemeni constitution the President of the republic and one third of parliament members have the right to request to amend one and more constitutional article or more and with approval of the majority of MPs of the principle of amendments the parliament discusses, two months after the amendments, and approve them except for some articles there is a condition of people referendum for the amendments.
It is to be pointed out that the GPC bloc represents more than 230 MPs which exceeds the two thirds of the Yemeni parliament members, totaling 301 members.
In the parliament session on Wednesday the MPs approved the state budget for the next year. The meeting was attended by Deputy Premier for Economic Affairs Dr Abdul Karim al-Arhabi, the Finance Minister Nouman al-Suhaibi and a number of government officials.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
Proposed constitutional amendments to be presented Saturday 
