almotamar.net - In a dialogue session on Saturday presided over by the General People's Congress (GPC) Secretary General Abdulqader Bajammal, 13 Yemeni political [parties and organisations affirmed their commitment to what had been signed in the agreement of principles which was signed by political parties and organisations in June 2006 concerning the supreme commission for election, stressing their keenness on importance of adhering to the constitutional and legal principles and political action.

The dialogue meeting on Saturday has discussed a proposal for amending article 19 pertaining to the financial support and assistance of the political parties and organisations for strengthening their situations and allotting of no less than 25% of government allocations to be distributed on equal basis among all the parties and distribution of the 75% according to the votes that each party has gained in the latest parliamentary elections.

The meeting also discussed a suggestion on amending article 13 regarding the formation of the parties and organisations committee. The discussion also included a new proposal on re-formation of the political parties and organisations' committee and the proposal demanded that the parties committee should be composed of seven members chaired by the state minister for the affairs of the parliament and the shoura council and the membership of two members chosen by the Supreme Judiciary Council, two members selected by the shoura council and two members chosen by the lawyers union.

The meeting has also discussed a proposal of amending article 9 so that the article should be drafted in a way achieving larger concept and bigger practice of democracy and internal life of the political parties and organisations and on condition that all political parties and organisations should play educational and training role for development of concepts and visions in the democratic work and activities inside the parties in particular and the political life in the country in general.