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The presidential candidates
OF THE ORIGINAL 31 nominees, the presidential vetting committee put forward 24 names for consideration by the full parliament. Only two of these achieved the required 10% support from MPs and 20 attracted no votes at all. The two approved candidates were:
ALI ABDULLAH…
Background to the election
Yemen's first direct presidential election took place on 23 September, 1999. President Ali Abdullah Salih, who came to power in 1978, won an unsurprising victory with 96.3% of the total votes. Below is a commentary published by al-bab.com before the election.
Bizarre…
Nominations for the presidency
NOMINATIONSfor the presidential election closed on July 13. In a last-minute rush, 31 names were put forward. (The following list of nominees was published in Attariq newspaper on July 20.)
Ali Abdullah Salih (General People's Congress, Islah, National Opposition…
The presidency
FROM unification in 1990 until shortly after the war of 1994, Yemen had a five-member presidential council, elected by parliament. Technically, Ali Abdullah Salih was merely its chairman - though in practice he was much more than that.
On September 29, 1994, parliament approved a…
Preparations for the election
THE ELECTORAL process was supervised by the Supreme Elections Committee which has seven members (appointed from a list of 15 nominated by parliament) - three from the GPC, two from Islah, one from the YSP and one independent.
In April, the government promised to revise…
Results, by party
Votes cast
%
Seats
%
GPC
3,429,888
58.0
238
79.1
Islah
1,333,394
22.6
46
15.3
YSP
277,223
3.8
8
2.7
Nasserist
109,480
1.9
3
1.0
Ba’athist
40,377
0.7
2
0.7
Independent
721,940
12.2
4
1.3
Total (turnout 76.0%)
5,912,302
100.0
301
100.0
Source:ElectionGuide.…
Alliance agreement between the General People's Congress and the Yemen Socialist Party, May 1993
Part 1
The task of re-unification of Yemen was achieved by the GPC and YSP in a peaceful and democratic way. This achievement has created a responsibility on those two parties, the other parties, as…
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