Annas [Archives:2003/651/Press Review]

15 July 2003
Main headlines:
– Citizen from Dhamar kills a person and mutilates his body
– MP al-Samiee criticizes parliament performance, expects conspiracy against him
– Parliament Speaker: It is of the president's interest to represent all.
– Communications minister instructs halting telephone services of false companies
– The president opens psychiatric hospital in Sana'a

Columnist Nasser Yahya says in his article that he has earlier proposed to import electoral committees to run and oversee the elections in our country after failure of Yemeni officials in guaranteeing honesty of the elections. Two weeks ago the prime minister Abdulqader Bajammal announced that there was no objection on importing judges to run the judiciary process as long as our judges are not performing their tasks in the required manner. The author of the article says his proposal was not given due attention but as for the prime minister's remark it has aroused resentment of some Yemeni judges and many of them expressed amazement at such a proposal. The important thing about the prime minister's remark is the principle. It is the rule of importing officials from abroad, in case of failure of their Yemeni counterparts in performing their duties. In this way the Yemeni people can stick to the premier's proposal and ask for importing a full government staff as long as the majority is convinced that those in charge of the executive power are either inefficient or corrupt.
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