Local Administration Ministry launches website for governors’ elections

A screenshot of the webpage shows the vast amount of information available to the public.

In a welcome addressing for an Internet site for the upcoming governor’s elections, the Local Administration Minister, Abdul Qadir Hilal, said that the site ensures the Ministry’s keenness to provide up-to-date information about the elections for local and outside interested journalists and researchers, confirming the importance of the site as a source for transparent information of this democratic event.

The site contains several pages, including outlines about Yemen, the president’s electoral program, and the governor’s elections’ information. The site also contains the elections’ directory, the time table, the electing body, the governorates’ administrative divisions, and the laws and legislations together with the elections’ daily activities.

In a related issue, the Minister said in his speech that the governors elections establishes the idea of self governing and it is a fulfillment of the president’s agenda of decentralization establishment. He pointed out that the activation of this concept is acknowledged through the amendment of the local authority law number 18 of 2008, and the procedural bylaw of the presidential decree number 86 of 2008.

Hilal added that the Ministry undertakes organizing the elections, whose success will be a positive addition to the local administration’s developmental effects. He added that the site’s establishment is meant for confirming the Ministry’s transparency by ensuring the researchers and journalists’ right for access to the information and for close follow up of this democratic event, besides the elections’ electronic site which will provide an up-to date information for local and abroad coverage.

The launching of this website is a first of it’s kind in Yemen and the Minister hopes that improvements such as this will continue to increase the transparency of elections in Yemen. He added that through the medium of Internet, the site can be accessed by millions of Yemenis wanting to keep on track of the elections.

The website is also expected to contain links to election laws passed in Yemen, further adding to an informed electorate. As the laws are posted on the site, it will also show journalists and Yemenis what the government is doing to increase transparency and thus increasing the institutions of democracy. 

The Minister listened to Anwar al-Shawl, the center’s information observer, who presented an outline of the services that the site will provide. They include journalistic editing, news updates, and media provision with the elections information. It will also furnish Internet services and the documentation of all local and international election coverage. 

The Minister also listened to Hassan Ahmed Sharafadin, the electronic site designer, who gave a briefing of the Ministry’s electronic site, regarding the headlines and the information included in the president’s electoral program. It also contains information about the election committee, the election’s directory, the time table, the administrative governorate’s divisions, the laws and legislations in addition to the media coverage.

The Minister also urged the staff to provide the best information services that go along with the election process. An Internet hall was installed at the center with twenty, highly efficient computers, which will provide high speed services for the media people.

The Local Administration Ministry started earlier its consultative media committee that is in charge of the elections to circulate news and events to all different media outlets of the upcoming governors’ elections.

The electronic elections site’s address can be found at: www.governorselections.org

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