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April
election for Yemen
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 6 November
1992
POLITICAL leaders in Yemen yesterday set a date for the first
multi-party elections. Fifty-four parties will fight for 301 seats in the new parliament
on April 27 next year. The elections will be the first under universal suffrage in the
Arabian Peninsula and may increase pressure for democracy among autocratic sheikhdoms.
The move comes a day after tensions between the two ruling
parties, the Socialists and the General People's Congress, eased with the return of
Vice-President Ali Salim Al-Baid to Sana'a from self-imposed exile.
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