-- Issue's Editorial
Once again, the People's General Congress has set out an excellent model of being ruled through democracy in a remarkable performance that displays its commitment to the multi-party system. At the same time, the PGC is the best party that fully comprehends the necessity of observing and respecting the legal procedures in the process of registering the voters lists to prevent any false claims or overvoting. This was clearly expressed in a letter sent by the PGC Secretary General to the chairman and members of the Supreme Elections Committee requesting them to recheck and rectify the voters lists. The letter also enjoined the SEC not to be duped by the dishonest claims of the opposition parties, which have been trying to intentionally misinterpret the legal texts in the elections laws in an opportunistic attempt to fall back on the PGC tolerance and divert the course of the registering process to serve their own selfish interests. These narrow-minded policies are not only illegal but they also obliterate the spirit of democracy, which grants every one the chance to show his merits.

-- Issue's Editorial
For almost the past two decades, the economic crisis and the absence of security have become collateral and constant visible facts in our country. People's ways of thinking and behaviors have been negatively reshaped during this unusual period in our modern times. The main headline in this particular period is the education of corruption, intentionally planned and shrewdly carried out. Hence, the tight grip of poverty and the absence of security caused by the traditional power centers that still dominate the destiny of our country. Therefore any attempts at change or talk about real reforms make these traditional centers frantic and upset.
The last and the best attempt of reform and change was the Document of Pledge and Accord. We all remember that this document was received with unprecedented national consensus, that even excelled the enthusiasm that was given to the country's Constitution. Nevertheless, established centers of corruption used every weapon at their disposal to prevent the implementation of the Document. Now, anyone who brings forth the issue of this document is automatically branded as secessionist or a warmonger. The problem becomes even worse with the absence of any similar attempt or initiative, a thing that has led the poor majority to lose faith in the present regime. The regime has uninterruptedly continued to tell lies about its efforts to create a prosperous and safe Yemen.
The reform policies and procedures designed by the expert economists in the Government are often developed in a way that only preserve the interests of the power centers. At the end, the poor majority will get more statements that our Yemeni Rial is, as ever, stable and strong and that security in Yemen is, as usual, observed and respected. No reference whatsoever would be made by our officials to the increasing numbers of empty bellies, nor to the increasing number of killings that are taking place in our country almost every day.

-- Issue's Editorial
The Forum of Emerging Democracies expected to be held in Sanaa soon derives it significance from the fact that it will place our experiences in democracy under spotlight. Moreover, the Forum comes to reassert our government's commitment to democracy, its instruments and its results. We in the Rabita party are most concerned with this important political event primarily because such an event fortifies the multiparty political system and further fixes the concept of peaceful transfer of power into our culture.
Regardless of our differences with our country's officialdom, particularly our disagreement with the government's practices, which we think are blocking the progress of our young democracy, we still hold that the arena of these difference is inside Yemen and the only way of settling our differences is through civilized human means.

Attagamu'u
Aden Weekly, Mouthpiece of
The Yemeni Unionist Congregation Party

14/6/1999.
Main Headlines:
1- The Yemeni opposition in Washington has a role in the cancellation of Mrs. Clinton's visit to Sanaa.
2- Speculations that Mr. Yahya Mutawakel might be appointed Yemen's ambassador to the Netherlands.
3- Dr. Yassin Saeed No'uman, a YSP leader and the opposition's strongest presidential candidate against Field Marshall President Saleh has no passport.

-- Issue's Editorial
In violation of Law no. 67 for the year 1991, related to the service in the armed and security forces, the People's General Congress, (PGC), the ruling party which currently controls a large majority of the Parliament, is using its massive influence to enlist as many numbers as it can from among military units all over the country. Empowered by the Supreme Elections Committee to have the upper hand in the main and sub-electoral committees for voters registration, the PGC has succeeded in enlisting huge numbers from the army and the security apparatus. Apparently this is its right, and we can still accept it as part of our young democracy. To seek violence and to terrorize the public, however, has nothing to do with democracy or political plurality. Reports of violent incidents inside the electoral committees have come from many places in the country, including the nation's Capital. Members of other parties in the electoral committees for registration have given up the task and returned home, saying "Keeping one's head in its place is the real profit." To the Gentlemen in the PGC: We know that the beginning is always difficult and that our democracy is like a newly born child. But if we begin treating our child the way you are, God only knows what will become of it!.

16/6/1999. 
Main Headlines:
1- The Prime Minister meets with the leaders of political parties and discusses Yemen's participation in the Emerging Democracies Forum with them.
2- Sanaa Declaration on Tourism will be announced this coming week.
3- The PGC Assistant Secretary General Mr. Yahya Al-Motawakel calls for dialogue between political parties.
4- The House of Representatives begin debating Arab Anti-Terrorism Protocol.
5- Absence of coordination between financial and monetary policies.
6- Mr. Ahmed Al-Imad, a PGC party leader denies any contentions inside his party.
7- Mr. Yahya Al-Shami, YSP Politburo says that the agenda of his party's presidential candidate will be deliberated in the upcoming round of the YSP Central Committee.
8- Disputes over powers which have been delegated to the investigation committee the parliament had created to study the Supreme Election Committee's violations.

Assahwah,
Sanaa weekly, Mouthpiece of
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah Party),

17/6/1999.
Main Headlines:
1- The PGC abandons efforts to correct the voters lists.
2- Observers warn that the PGC's intervention in the activities of the Supreme Elections Committee jeopardize the future of democracy in Yemen.
3- Protesting the PGC's attempts to force the MPs into the elections processes, Islah's MPs withdraw from the Parliament hearing on the violations related to the correction of the voters lists.
4- Once again, the Yemeni Rial declines against the US Dollar, just to emphasize the government's failure in accounting for the crisis.
5- Khawlan turns down compromises in the murder of their son, Abdul-Khalek Sharif, and insists on punishment for the killers.