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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Yemen Gateway: party law - a comparative perspective
In Yemen a party is granted legal status by the approval of the Committee for the Affairs of Parties and Political Organisations (CAPPO), which consists of the Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs as chairman, the Ministers of the Interior and Justice as members, and four non-partisans who must be either retired judges or lawyers.
Parties are associations oriented to the formation of political opinion at Federal or Land level and to participation in the representation of the people in the Federal Parliament (Bundstag) or Regional Parliaments (Landtag).
Party or political organisation: any group of Yemenis organised according to common principles and objectives based on constitutional legitimacy, who exercise political and democratic activities with the aim of achieving the transfer of power or sharing thereof using peaceful means.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/pol/saifparty.htm   (3782 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Yemeni politician killed at party's congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jarallah Omar, the deputy secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist party, was gunned down minutes after delivering a speech at the annual congress of the Islamic Reform Party in the capital, San'a.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh condemned the killing and said Omar was a "victim of violence and extremism," the country's official news agency reported.
His Socialist party is seen as the most popular opposition group in Yemen, but is not represented in parliament because it boycotted the last elections in 1997.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-12-28-yemen-shooting_x.htm   (461 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Yemeni party under fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yemeni Vice President Abd-Rabu Mansour, a former YSP member, said in a statement to a weekly that the YSP does not in a practical sense even exist as a political organisation.
The YSP's fourth general conference passed several resolutions, the most controversial of which was to re-elect 41 of its former members, exiled since 1994, to its central committee.
The YSP was defeated, its leaders exiled and subsequently sentenced to death in absentia for treason.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/502/re3.htm   (530 words)

  
 Middle East Report Online: The Death and Life of Jarallah Omar, by Sheila Carapico, Lisa Wedeen and Anna Wuerth
Jarallah Omar, deputy secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, was assassinated December 28, 2002, minutes after delivering a conciliatory speech to the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, known as al-Tajammu` al-Yemeni lil-Islah or simply Islah.
Initially, some Yemenis speculated that Omar's murder could portend violence in advance of parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2003, while others assumed the shooting of a well-known secular politician was connected to a string of al-Qaeda terrorist attacks in Yemen.
Ordinary Yemenis are mourning the death of a man who embodied a great deal of the nation's past and its hopes for the future.
www.merip.org /mero/mero123102.html   (1880 words)

  
 Representative Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Yemeni Socialist party was established in the former southern part of the country and was influenced by the Arab Nationalistic Movement and Marxism existed in Russia at that time.
In 1975, the two Marxist parties were merged into the nationalistic Front (the ruling party) as a preparation for establishing the Yemeni socialist party.
In May, 1994, the secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist party declared the existence of the democratic Republic of Yemen which was refused by all Yemenis who supported the Yemeni unity and stood firmly against the separation on July 7,1994.
www.alsahwa-yemen.net /elections/eng/partic.asp   (406 words)

  
 Asia Times
Jarallah Omar, deputy secretary general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, was assassinated December 28, 2002, minutes after delivering a conciliatory speech to the Yemeni Congregation for Reform, known as al-Tajammu al-Yemeni lil-Islah or simply Islah.
Initially, some Yemenis speculated that Omar's murder could portend violence in advance of parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2003, while others assumed the shooting of a well-known secular politician was connected to a string of al-Qaeda terrorist attacks in Yemen.
Ordinary Yemenis are mourning the death of a man who embodied a great deal of the nation's past and its hopes for the future.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EA11Ak04.html   (1770 words)

  
 1996 Human Rights Report: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), formerly the main party of the south and a previous coalition partner, is now an opposition party.
All parties must be registered in accordance with the Political Parties Law of 1991, which stipulates that each party must have at least 75 founders and at least 2,500 members.
The Constitution prohibits the establishment of parties that are contrary to Islam, oppose the goals of the Yemeni revolution, or violate Yemen's international commitments.
www.usemb.se /human/1996/neareast/yemen.html   (4606 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Yemeni politician shot dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Mr Omar, the deputy secretary-general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, had been addressing the annual congress of the Islamic Reform Party, which is also in opposition.
Yemeni President Ali Andullah Saleh said Mr Omar was a "victim of violence and extremism", the country's official news agency, Saba, reported.
The Socialist Party is the main opposition movement in Yemen.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2611071.stm   (289 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | A fairer electoral process?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
All the major Yemeni opposition parties this week declared their rejection of a government-proposed election law which would give the president the right to appoint the body in charge of administrating the electoral process.
In talks with Yemeni Prime Minister Abdul-Qader Bajamal last week, the CCOP said the president "should not use his post to favour of a certain party as long as the president was regarded as president for all."
Yemeni opposition parties claimed serious electoral irregularities, violations and crimes in the February polls, and called for new elections.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/543/re7.htm   (840 words)

  
 1993 Human Rights Report: YEMEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Remittances from Yemeni workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, formerly an important source of hard currency, declined significantly in the aftermath of the Gulf war, and aid from the Gulf states has almost ended.
In seven out of eight cases in which amputation penalties were imposed, the Yemeni Supreme Court refused to confirm the sentences and in several cases ordered the prisoners released upon a finding that their periods of incarceration, which ranged up to 10 years, were adequate punishment.
A common ploy of Yemeni employers is to hire third-country nationals, often from the horn of Africa, and then, upon the expiration of their term of service, accuse them of theft and have them imprisoned in order to avoid paying their salary or ticket home.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_nea/Yemen.html   (5061 words)

  
 The Colonial Revolution and Civil War in South Yemen
So there was a struggle inside the Yemeni Socialist Party with one faction opposed to the attempts on the part of Ali Nasser Mohammed to come to an agreement with North Yemen and the other reactionary states of the region and to cease to support the revolutionary movement in these countries.
A formal interpretation of party democracy may generate organisational and ideological looseness, negligence and a weakening of the party's militancy.
On the other hand, excessive centralisation kills initiative, and gives party work the features of administration and turns party organisation into a purely executive authority.' Phenomena of this kind, says the President, 'formalism and armchair administration were to be observed in some Yemeni Socialist Party organisations'...
www.marxist.com /MiddleEast/yemen1986.html   (3557 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Yemeni court upholds death sentence against extremist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni court on Saturday upheld the death sentence of a Muslim extremist convicted of assassinating a prominent politician in 2002 and helping to plot an attack that killed three American missionaries — including a Kansas native — in a hospital days later.
Mohammed al-Mikhlafy, the lawyer representing the late politician, was critical of the court's decision to acquit the alleged accomplices in Omar's killing.
Yemeni officials have said that Kamel and al-Jarallah may be linked to the al-Qaeda terror network headed by Osama bin Laden, who has Yemeni ancestral roots.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-04-23-Muslim-extremist-Yemen-court_x.htm   (487 words)

  
 Unification of Yemen: Agreement by Joint Yemeni Political Committee, 1990
In the meetings, national awareness was expressed of the need for renewing the necessary rules for political activity in the Yemeni Republic in a way that would consolidate free democratic practices, in accordance with the goals of the Yemeni revolution, for all sectors and levels of society.
Let the enemies of the Yemeni peoples and unity know that their desperate attempts to thwart the course of unity and development in the homeland will not be stronger than the will of our people who have managed to thwart all conspiracies at every stage of the victorious Yemeni revolution.
Glory to the Yemeni revolution, immortality to its martyrs, and victory to Yemeni unity.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/unity/unif8.htm   (392 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Yemeni assassination plotter sentenced to death- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
— A Yemeni court on Sunday sentenced a Muslim extremist to death for plotting the assassination of a politician and three American missionaries in December 2002.
Ali al-Jarallah was found guilty of planning the assassination of Jarallah Omar, deputy secretary-general of the Yemeni Socialist Party, as well as the murder two days of the missionaries at a Southern Baptist missionary hospital in Jibla.
Omar's Socialist Party and other opposition parties had requested further investigation to reveal what they said were influential Yemenis financing al-Jarallah's cell.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1063543072719_148?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory   (356 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This policy of northern hegemony triggered a brief civil war in 1994 when southern secessionists (led by the Yemeni Socialist Party, YSP) were defeated and subdued by military force.
Al-Islah, an Islamist party based on factional tribal identity and closely aligned with the GPC, serves as the primary opposition force in the legislative branch.
In January 2001 a group of opposition parties, led by the YSP, formed the Opposition Coordination Council ahead of forthcoming municipal elections and a referendum on constitutional amendments that sought to increase the presidential and legislative terms of office.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Yem1.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Global Vision News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
According to an official source, the gunman, was a member of the Islamic opposition Islah Party, and was mosque preacher known for his extremist views and opposition to the government and moderates in his own party.
The Islah Party on the other hand, rejected the claims of the official media saying that the assassin was not a member of Islah.
In his statement, Jarallah Omar praised the Islah Party and called it "a party with a distinguished position as a great political power that cannot be ignored." He also mentioned the requirements towards building a modern democratic country.
www.gvnews.net /html/Crisis/alert153.html   (1098 words)

  
 Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist though some are Social Democratic and some are not.
See also Socialist International and list of social democratic parties.
Switzerland - Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also known as the Swiss Socialist Party)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Party   (180 words)

  
 The Plight of the Yemeni Press.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After the Yemeni unification in 1989, Yemen adopted the democratic and pluralistic system as a means of governance.
The Yemeni Journalists' was not working well because of the desire of the political parties to control it.
Al-Wahdawi, the mouthpiece of the Unionist Nasserite Party in June 1998 and Al-Thawri, the mouthpiece of the Yemeni Socialist Party, in January 1997 and June 1998.
www.cmfmena.org /magazine/features/plight_of_the_press.htm   (854 words)

  
 Yemeni Election 2006: A Fraud in the Making - Worldpress.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A legitimate Yemeni election may be the linchpin of regional democratization efforts and the battle against extremism.
In relation to the natural right of the Yemeni people to choose their leaders, hold their representatives accountable, and to direct the governance of the country, Yemen’s next election may not be a victory for democracy but its defeat.
All those concerned with the well-being of the Yemeni people, the stability of the region, and the advance of democracy need rally to the side of freedom and self-determination while there still is a chance.
www.worldpress.org /Mideast/2110.cfm   (910 words)

  
 Representative Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The representative elections which have been carried out on 27, April, 1993 will be engraved in the Yemeni memory for they are regarded as the first representative elections in the unified Yemen as well as the first elections conducted within the political and partisan pluralism.
The results of the 1993 elections led to forming a tri-partite coalition government composed of the first three parties that obtained the majority of seats which are : people General congress, Yemeni Congregation for Reform,Yemeni Socialist party.
Such a coalition was unique as it brought together, for the first time, the leftist parties represented by the Yemeni Socialist party  and the Islamic Current parties symbolized by the Islah party.
www.alsahwa-yemen.net /elections/eng/yemen_elec.asp   (371 words)

  
 The Colonial Revolution and Civil War in South Yemen
So there was a struggle inside the Yemeni Socialist Party with one faction opposed to the attempts on the part of Ali Nasser Mohammed to come to an agreement with North Yemen and the other reactionary states of the region and to cease to support the revolutionary movement in these countries.
A formal interpretation of party democracy may generate organisational and ideological looseness, negligence and a weakening of the party's militancy.
On the other hand, excessive centralisation kills initiative, and gives party work the features of administration and turns party organisation into a purely executive authority.' Phenomena of this kind, says the President, 'formalism and armchair administration were to be observed in some Yemeni Socialist Party organisations'...
www.newyouth.com /archives/middleeast/civil_war_in_south_yemen.asp   (3556 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The YSP, now in the opposition as is al-Islah, governed southern Yemen before it was unified with the north in May 1990.
Omar, married with five children, passed out of the Yemeni police academy before founding the south Yemen Popular Union Party, which merged with the YSP when the country was unified.
In September 2000, the socialists upset the Sanaa government by confirming their exiled leadership at the head of the party.
onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,158605-1-9,00.html   (613 words)

  
 Local News - Issue 35 - Yemen Times
The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) is currently preparing for its fourth general congress scheduled for next Wednesday at the Military Academy in Sana’a.
Yemeni officials sought the assistance of the delegation to finance two other projects namely, completion of Aden TV building, including modernizing and developing it at a cost of US$20 million.
The revenue in Yemeni Riyals shall be transferred to a coffer administered jointly by the Ministry of Planning and the French Embassy.
www.yementimes.com /00/iss35/ln.htm   (2761 words)

  
 Background Note: Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yemenis are divided into two principal Islamic religious groups: the Zaidi community of the Shi'a sect, found in the north and northwest, and the Shafa'i community of the Sunni sect, found in the south and southeast.
Yemenis are mainly of Semitic origin, although Negroid strains are present among inhabitants of the coastal region.
The provisional parliament is entrusted with all legislative powers stipulated in the constitution, with the exception of electing members of the council and amendment of the constitution.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/nea/yemen9211.html   (3763 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Yemeni court upholds death sentence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A Yemeni court on Saturday upheld the death sentence of a Muslim extremist convicted of assassinating a prominent politician in 2002 and helping to plot an attack that killed three American missionaries in a hospital days later.
SAN`A, Yemen --A Yemeni court on Saturday upheld the death sentence of a Muslim extremist convicted of assassinating a prominent politician in 2002 and helping to plot an attack that killed three American missionaries in a hospital days later.
Yemeni officials have said that Kamel and al-Jarallah may be linked to the al-Qaida terror network headed by Osama bin Laden, who has Yemeni ancestral roots.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/23/yemeni_court_upholds_death_sentence?mode=PF   (455 words)

  
 Asia Times
But the ruling party is up against an opposition alliance of the Islah Party, the Yemeni Socialist Party, the Nasserite Unionist organization and five others.
Opposition parties see this as an attempt to direct demonstrations to the advantage of the ruling party.
But Islah party secretary-general Mohammad al-Yadoomi says "there is no justification for delaying elections, because there would be a war in Iraq, not in Yemen".
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC12Ak01.html   (722 words)

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