The manual of  expatriates exercising their right of voting in the presidential elections  and in the referendum

The manual of  expatriates exercising their right of voting in the presidential elections  and in the referendum  :

decision of chairman of the  Supreme Commission for  Elections and referendum   number ( 38 )  year 2002

The chairman of the Supreme Commission  for Elections and  referendum,

After viewing law  number ( 13 )  year 2001  regarding the public elections and the referendum

and viewing  the presidential  decree number ( 52 )  year 2001  about  the formation of Supreme  Commission for elections and referendum

and viewing  the presidential  decree number ( 11 ) of year 2002 AD with issuing the executive regulation of the law of public elections and referendum

And viewing  the presentation form the head of  advisory and legal affairs sector

And after the approval of the supreme Commission to the report of its meeting a number ( 36 ) Dated : 29 / 5 / 2002

/  decision /

CHAPTER ONE:

NAMES AND DEFINITIONS

And Goals And the right to enroll

Section one

Part one

Article (1):

This manual is named  ( the organizing manual  of the Yemeni expatriates exercise  their right in the vote in the presidential elections and the referendum )

Article (2):

The words and expressions used herein are defined as follows, unless explicitly specified otherwise:

• The expatriate elector: All Yemeni citizen resident in a foreign country on regular base or by coincidence , or came across his presence  for any reason in the specific period for the recording and the voting, on a condition that he is carrying the election card and recording its name in the lists of the expatriate electors that the embassy or the consulate or the Yemeni community  prepares  To whom carry the election cards and in all on the states  required that the expatriate is fulfilling the legal conditions mentioned in the two items ( 4 - 5 ) from this manual

• Recording the expatriates: is counting the names of the Yemeni expatriates carrying the election cards and the clarification of their numbers, and undertaken  by the electors recording committees .

• The election homeland of the expatriate :  is the center that recorded the expatriate  name in it whether the position was an embassy or a consulate or commissioner headquarters to the community .

• The committees of recording the expatriate electors :  is the committees that form from the sons of the Yemeni communities abroad for counting the  Yemeni expatriates that hold the election cards, And  the formation of these committees a decision is issued from the chairman of the Elections Supreme Committee and the referendum according to the presentation of the embassies or the Yemeni consulates .

• The presidential elections : the exercise of the nation  right in the republic president election on the clarified way in the election law and its executive regulation and manual

• The referendum : the poll of all citizens and with them the expatriates who enjoy the election rights for the knowledge of their approval or their refusal extent  for any topic put for a referenda.

• The lists of the final expatriate electors counting : it is the lists related to counting  of the expatriate electors names and data that hold election cards  that is approved From the Supreme Commission for Elections  and  Referendum after its preparation from the expatriates recording centers abroad .

• The administration committees of elections and referendum of the expatriates : is the committees that form from the sons of the Yemeni community abroad to  administrate the voting and counting of  votes in the presidential elections and referendum issued with its formation  a decision from the chairman of the Elections Supreme Committee and the referendum according to the presentation of the embassies and the Yemeni consulates .

• The election card :  is the card issued from the supreme commission which is given to each elector registered his name in the final electors schedules, it is not  permissible to the expatriate to exercise  his right in the presidential elections and the referendum except if he was holding this card .

Part two

Goals

Article ( 3 ) : this guide aims at what flows : -

• putting the regulations and the rules for the exercise of the expatriates right in t voting by its simplified way

• to clarify who has the right from the Yemeni expatriates by the abroad recording their names at the embassies and the consulates and the Yemeni communities for the sake of the exercise of their right in the presidential elections and Referendum

• The clarification of the embassies role and the Yemeni consulates abroad in enabling the Yemeni expatriates of the exercise of their right in the vote in the presidential elections and to have their say in the Referendum

• The clarification of the measures that their following is necessary during the polling process and sorting the presidential elections and the referendum that is held abroad .

Section two

The right of recording  at the embassies and the consulates and the Yemeni communities abroad

The right of recording  at the embassies

 and the consulates and the Yemeni communities abroad

Article (4): The recording of the name of any Yemeni expatriate resident abroad does not become permissible in the lists of the expatriate electors if he was not  holding  an election card and registered  his name in the electors schedules in one of the republic constituencies .

Article (5): any expatriate resident abroad has the right to vote  in the presidential elections and the referendum assuming in which the legal conditions are available :

1. If his name is recorded in the electors schedules in one of the republic constituencies and carries the election card .

2. If he records his name at the embassy or the consulate or the Yemeni community in the country that he stays in , and that is through the appointed period that the supreme commission for Elections & Referendum chooses

Article (6): The expatriates recording period have the clarified authorities in the previous Article are a day from the following day for the declaration of the embassy of the expatriates with recording their names .

Article (7): Number recorded Yemeni expatriates is not  less in the electors lists at the embassy or the consulate or the Yemeni community than five hundred electors in  each external country holding the polling process in it .

Article (8):  Each Yemeni expatriate characterized by the recording right exercises his election rights in the center that recorded his name and this center is considered as the electoral center in Yemen, The one that the declaration of its vote becomes suitable to it and in all of the states the declaration of its vote becomes permissible to the expatriate elector in any center from the voting centers Assuming the embassies and consulates and the Yemeni communities a single constituency .

Article (9): The recording of any other person does not become permissible to any Yemeni expatriate whatever was the reasons and does not become permissible to committees that it accepts that and no becomes permissible for them that except the concerned party is recording himself

Article (10): It is not  permissible by any means that the Yemeni expatriate records his name in more than one recording committee .

Article (11): The list of the expatriate electors names counting is considered by the Supreme  Commission for Elections and the Referendum an undeniable evidence in the election time, And be considered as the schedule of the final registration of the electors and no becomes permissible to any Yemeni expatriate has the right to exercises voting  the presidential elections or the referendum

Chapter Two