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Candidate
Party
Valid votes
%
Ali Abdullah Salih
GPC
4,149,673
77.17
Faisal bin Shamlan
Joint Meeting Parties
1,173,025
21.81
Fathi Mohammed al-Azab
Independent
24,524
0.46
Yassin Abdo Saeed Nu’man
Nat Opposition Council
21,642
0.40
Ahmed Abdullah Majeed al-Majidi
Independent
8,324
0.…
Parties contesting the 1997 election
Party
Symbol
Candidates
Women
1.
General People's Congress
Horse
257
2
2.
Islah
Sun
241
0
3.
Nasserite Unionist Party
Star & Crescent
88
0
4.
Arab Baath Socialist Party
Palm Tree
34
2
5.
Nasserite Democratic Party
Scales
33
0
6.
Nasserite…
CONTENTS
●Registration of voters(by province)
●Registration of female voters(as % of total registered)
●Withdrawals of candidates, 1993
●Election results by province(number of seats won)
●Election results by party
●Geographical distribution of votes(% share of poll)
●State of the parties, 1993…
The Eighteen Points
The following list of demands was issued by Ali Salim al-Baid, leader of the Yemen Socialist Party, during his dispute with President Ali Abdullah Salih in August 1993.
Military and security matters:
1. To arrest those suspected of assassinations, bombings, highway robbery,…
Authoritarian rule in a plural society:the Republic of Yemen
by Omar Daair
MSc dissertation, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (September 2001)
Abstract
Introduction
Theoretical faramework
Migdal’s Approach - Monarchical Presidency - Corporatist Praetorianism and Limited Pluralism
The…
Agreement on Coalition Government and Parliamentary Co-operation, 30 May, 1993
Brothers Lt-Gen Ali Abdullah Salih, Chairman of the Presidential Council and Secretary-General of the General People’s Congress (GPC); Ali Salim al-Bid, Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Council and Secretary-General of…
Statement by British medium-term observers, 1997
30 April 1997
Following an invitation from the Supreme Elections Committee (SEC), the British government sent a team of four to observe the general elections in the Yemeni Republic. The team arrived in Sana'a on 6 April 1997 preceding by two weeks…
The "final and permanent" border agreement between Yemen and Saudi Arabia is being hailed as a milestone in relations between the two neighbours. But there is still work to be done.
Commentary by Brian Whitaker, 1 July, 2000
THE BORDER treaty between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, signed on June 12,…
Newspapers
al-Thawra
Government daily
26 September
Newspaper of the armed forces
al-Ayyam
Independent paper established in the 1950s, based in Aden.
Yemen Times
English-language newspaper founded in 1991 by the late Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Saqqaf.
Yemen Observer
English-language newspaper.
Ray
Newspaper…
Documents
The Document of Pledge and Accord
18 January, 1994 (full text)
Proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Yemen
Aden, 21 May 1994
United Nations Security Council Resolution 924
1 June, 1994
United Nations Security Council Resolution 931
29 June, 1994
Further information
Summary of the…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
