Almotamar.net - Reliable political sources close to proceedings of the dialogue going on between the General People's Congress (GPC) and the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) in Yemen revealed that there has been an agreement on 60% of contents of the elections law which were object of difference and that the dialogue resulted in settling them finally.
The sources pointed out all the pending issues that are still points of disaccord are expected to be solved in the present week so that the parliament would after that discuss the amendments of the elections law.
Concerning the issues that have been agreed on the sources pointed out to the agreement of principles signed between the parties in June 2006 and recommendations of the European Union team that came after the presidential elections of 2006, aimed at developing the electoral mechanism, enhancing its transparency and verification of guarantees for candidates and the electorate as well as acceleration of the announcement of elections results.
The sources made it clear that the GPC and the JMP have agreed to entrust tasks of the vote-counting committees with voting committees so that vote counting of ballot boxes will be done by the committees that supervised the voting process instead of transferring the boxes for collective counting in each constituency.
The sources did not expound about the new mechanism of setting up the supreme commission of elections but said it is the top priority in the dialogue because of the importance of its formation constitutionally and in terms of time as the month of August is a constitutional vacation of the parliament.
Al-Mithaq weekly quoted the sources as mentioning that the dialogue is going on well and it talked about issues still a matter of difference such as the formation of elections supreme commission, the electoral system and reviewing the central tables of electors. it has been agreed that these issues would be left to the president of the republic Ali Abdullah Saleh to be settled with the secretary general of the Islah party Abdulwahab al-Anisi and the chairman of the higher council of the JMP and then to refer the points of agreement to legalists for drafting them.