-- Issue's Editorial
The PGC carries on the process of national achievements firmly and confidently, without paying attention to the follies of those who try to bury the truth and to cloud the brighter aspects in our country. The future can be attained through sound foundations of a comprehensive development on which democratic practice, peaceful exchange of power and respect of human rights come first. These principles have been assimilated and practiced by the PGC as the best way to exploit human energies as well as material resources. Without providing equal opportunities to all citizens, the chance of effecting real progress and prosperity shrinks and the whole society slumbers in a state of stagnation.
For the PGC, democracy is an inevitable option and when well-organized it will certainly become an important factor for winning the future and passing well through the gate to the 21st century. This fact is not yet conceived by the Opposition Coordination Council and their defeated candidate. Nor do they realize the universal truth that wrong premises could lead only to wrong conclusion. The YSP and their allies in the opposition are now reaping the bitter fruits for boycotting the 1997 parliamentary elections. It is amazingly ridiculous that Moqbil should beg the approval for his nomination from other forces who are in variance with his political conventions and practice.

27/7/1999 
Main Headlines:
1- The Opposition forms up a committee to design a plan of action to confront the Parliament's rejection of Muqbil's nomination.
2- The Opposition Coordination Council calls for the cancellation of the presidential elections as they have become meaningless.
3- In a record time, the Parliament passes a most serious amendment to the Elections Law.
4- The president's term in office ends coming October.
5- The government universities increase students' enrollment fees.

--Issue's Editorial
In a debate seminar organized by the Future Studies Center in Sanaa, dedicated to discuss the Yemeni-American relations, two contrasting views emerged in relation to this topic. One view holds that democracy has already contributed to the improvement in the two countries relations, while the other one maintains that America's interest in Yemen is purely self-motivated. A third view, expressed by Mr. Jaruallah Omer, a YSP leader, offered a compromising point when he argues that the US policy towards Yemen is outlined through democratic as well as self-interest values. However, the Political Consultant in the US Embassy expressively agreed to the self-interest side in the US-Yemeni relations and described this side as absolutely natural in the International relations. Yet, she repeatedly referred to her country's support to democratic and human rights values.
Ironically, the seminar was held at the same day when the Parliament held its session that settled the endorsement of the presidential nominees. The outcomes of this session greatly disappointed the officials in the American Embassy, notably the Ambassador herself who exerted extensive efforts to persuade the ruling party, Islah, as well as opposition parties to actively participate in real elections run by different candidates and for different agendas. The resultant dismay must be far greater specially when it comes shortly soon after the Emerging Democracies Forum, which was apparently held to boost democracy in the participant countries.

-- Issue's editorial
Since the 1950s of this century, most governments in the Arab World have found themselves in a fierce conflict with the Islamist Movement that resulted in different hostile acts of execution, imprisonment, etc., which detrimentally affected the process of development in these countries. No doubt, foreign hostile hands were and still are beyond this adversarial atmosphere, for they succeeded in instilling the scarecrow image often attached to the Islamist movements.