almotamar.net - Assistant Secretary General for Information Sector at the General People’s Congress GPC Ahmed Ubaid Bin Daghr has emphasized Friday that the Joint Meeting Parties JMP are searching for themselves for a stance regarding the 4th parliamentary elections in Yemen scheduled in next April because their internal differences do not allow them to take one step forward, adding that the GPC has offered all that they need of concessions.


In an interview published by 26 September weekly newspaper of Yemen Bin Daghr said,” I expect that the voice of reason , logic and reality to win over in the final decision of the JMP and I don’t think that a party like Islah would sacrifice gains of democracy during the past years by an adventure like boycotting the elections. “

He maintained that the problem of the Yemen Socialist Party YSP is that his bases are led by non-socialist elements and this leadership is socialist in appearance. This is its crisis inside the JMP, saying the party does no longer influencing its bases and maybe this feeling among its leaders makes them more strict towards holding the elections in the defined date. Maybe they need an opportunity to tackle their conditions and therefore they demand "from us and all the political forces to delay the elections and this does not seem for me a reasonable demand.”

On the other hand Mr Bin Daghr said he would not believe that the Islah party which realized electoral democratic gains in previous stages would sacrifice its gains and boycott the elections. “We are waiting for what the Higher Council of the JMP to say,” he added.

He said the GPC is at present studying the convenient mechanism for choosing its candidates for the parliamentary elections on 27 April 2009.