Annas [Archives:2006/940/Press Review]

17 Apr 2006.
Main headlines

– JMP inaugurates its contacts with the public by meeting its branch leaderships

– Teachers chairman calls for putting politics aside and unite for the rights

– Students succeed in canceling the rule of guard in Sana'a University

– Opposition leader Abu-Isbaa: If the president had believed in the JMP program he would have entered history through the widest gates

– The opposition goes westwards and the president heads eastwards

– JMP meets leaderships of its branches in the governorates, defines priorities of the next stage

Writer Nasser al-Taweel says at last the almost four-month dialogue between the Joint Meeting parties and the General People's Congress has floundered. If the GPC has not publicly revealed its motives for hindering the progress of dialogue or its vision about the electoral process up until now, the behavior has disclosed part of the general climate in which the opposition parties are working and that affects its performance and blocks the road leading to realization of its political and national goals.

In a state like Yemen the political variable receives much importance and mostly leads the rest of economic, social and cultural variables. Within the frame of the political change, the regime is the party of more effect. In such situations the political action needs requirements and measures other than those known in the political life in the countries run by institutions.

The present authority does not possess a political project and all that it aims at is to stay in power the longest possible period of time. Therefore, the ideological lines do not represent a determinant in its relations with the political forces and parties but in what it sees as essential of national and religious constants. Upon that it deals in a pragmatic way with those parties. This is a positive mater but it has other negative consequences. The absence of the political projects has taken with it the strategic vision and with the latter absence the policies have become absent as well. It is difficult to assume that the political, economic and social situations in Yemen are managed through policies of clear objectives and have relative steadiness in measures and programs. What he government calls as policies are in fact general trends and orientations not built on correct and enough information. They do not follow administrative and scientific procedures necessary for building, implementing and evaluating them.

I think matters are heading for easing the pressure on opposition political leaderships, especially after alliance among the parties of the Joint Meeting and their declaration of their program for the political and national reform and formation of establishments for that grouping, their vision about elections process guarantees. All that will narrow the margin of maneuver for the authority and prevents it from trying to divide the rank of the opposition. That may lead ultimately to rationalize politics in Yemen. Nonetheless that is related and connected to the extent of the JMP commitment to collective action and the constitution and law in dealing with the authority.
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