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Written By: Abdul-Aziz Oudah
Article Date: Sep 2, 2008 - 3:14:15 AM
The Supreme Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) announced that they are not going to boycott the next elections, as GPC desires, however they will not run it pursuant to GPC’s agenda.
The opposition JMP and the ruling GPC parties exchanged accusations of creating political crises. In a press conference held last Sunday, Abdulwahab al-Anisi, the JMP committee executive manager, said that the ruling party has made a coup by forming a supreme election and referendum committee, thus escalating the country’s political crises and tensions. “We are not surprised with the GPC’s move because such policies are expected from the ruling authorities,”Al-Anisi added.
Tariq al-Shami, the Information Secretary of the GPC, accused the JMP of trying to disrupt the next elections, which are due to happen in April, next year.
Al-Shami said in a press conference, held in an unprecedented step, by a ruling party, in the JMP’s premises, following their press conference, “The JMP has no new programs and they are repeating their old unserious address, in regards to the election and democracy issues.”
Al-Shami held the JMP parties responsible for the secessionist and regional tendencies, the Sa’adah incidents and the terrorist and violent crimes, which he attributed to their bigoted irrational address that fuels the separatist calls among the communities.
“The JMP authorities are to carry out the state’s duties. They want the JMP to face al-Houthi in Sa’adah so that they become the arbitrators between us and al-Houthi,” said Al-Anisi.
The socialist party’s General Secretary Yahia Abo Osba said that the southern case is realized in two issues: the peoples’ confiscated houses and the political inequity.
Abo Osba said that the JMP participated in Saada war settlement by submitting their proposals for the solution and the participation in joint war stopping committees.
Abo Osba accused the authorities of fabricating the recent riots in the south in order to arrest the peaceful protesters and the opposition leaders’ activists.
Abo Osba expressed sorrow over the GPC’s usage of the political detainees’ case as an extortion issue. He explained that the JMP’s attitude is unified towards the southern case, because it is a political right case, which is not hard to resolve. He called on the authorities to recognize it together with the military detainees’ case.
The two consecutive press conferences held simultaneously at the JMP premises created boisterous attitudes, following the appearance of the GPC secretary at the JMP’s gate, asking the journalists to go back to listen to his press conference in response to the JMP.