SANA'A, Jan. 13 (Saba)-

The Technical and Planning Committee of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) said on Tuesday that it has inserted date of 1,135,000 new legal voters in the SCER database
In its meeting, the SCER listened to the report over efforts of the committee in inserting the date of new voters.
The commission also listened to the comments of the committee of the legal affairs over draft of memo of understanding with the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) over technical and administrative assistance to the commission.
The commission formed team headed by the SCER chairman to discuss with the IFES over those comments.

 

SANA'A, Jan. 08 (Saba) -

The electoral committees will announce the sentences of courts on the electoral appeals within five days, member of Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) said on Thursday.
The Head of Planning and Technical Affairs Sector in the (SCER) Mohammed al-Sayani emphasized on Thursday that the specialized primary courts will finish on Saturday looking into the electoral appeals submitted to them .
Al-Sayani added that till last Wednesday, information and photos of 900 thousand voters who registered their names in the voter registers during the process of reviewing and amending voters registration in 2008 have been entered .
In a statement to 26September, al-Sayani stated that the works of reviewing data which were conducted by a specialized technical team, who are working in 4 shifts, will be finished by the current month.
He also pointed out that the technical sector has counted those cases and transferred them to the prosecution which are 130,000 cases of repeated names and 40,000 cases of illegal age ones.
The process of reviewing and amending voters registration will be finished in February followed by the voting phase for which the President will issue a decree of calling on voters to vote in the parliamentary election on 27 April .
 

SANA'A, Dec. 31 (Saba)-

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum reviewed in its Wednesday's meeting final report on receiving applications for participation in monitoring reviewing voters records.
The report includes comprehensive statistics of applications for participating in monitoring voters' records and a number of suggestions aiming at promoting process of electoral control for the forthcoming period.
According to the report, licenses granted for participants in the election process have reached 17,285. The committee approved recommendations included in the report and authorized concerned sectors to carry out them.
The commission reviewed report presented by head of the SCER's technical sector over the ongoing process and the process of technical input of voters' data and photos.
According to the report, data and photos of 600,000 new voters have been included in voters' records.
The commission reviewed report over the project of memo of understanding between the SCER and International Federation for Election System for supporting women in elections and referred it to law affair sector.
 

SANA'A, Dec. 30 (Saba)-

Head of the Technical and Planning sector at the Supreme Commission of Elections and Referendum (SCER), Mohammed al-Sayani held a meeting with the executive director of the International Foundation for Election Systems IFES in Sana'a Better Williams over technical cooperation between the commission and the IFES.
They also reviewed outcomes of the revising phase for the voters' lists which resulted in discovering 165,000 cases of repeating and under legal age.
Al-Sayani briefed the IFES official on the legal measures taken by the commission to refer these cases to the prosecution.
The IFES voiced readiness of the foundation to offer technical assistance to the SCER in this regard, highlighting efforts of the commission during the phase of revision.

 

SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER)discussed in its meeting held on Wednesday report presented by heads of technical and legal sectors over repeated cases registered in voters records.
According to the report, the process of checking up and revising unearthed 125,000 repeated cases in the voters' records, in addition to 40,000 cases under legal age.
The commission approved referring these violations to the prosecution and authorized the heads of the two sectors to follow up the process of checking up and revising and refereeing violations to the prosecution.
The commission also reviewed report presented by the heads of the two sectors over violations committed by some electoral committees during the process of revising and amending new voters' records.
The commission approved referring committees which committed these violations to prosecution for taking law measures against them. It also directed a memo to minister of education for taking legal and administrative measures against the violators.

 

SANA'A,

The International Foundation for Election System (IFES) praised on Saturday processes of inputting voters' data and clearing the photo electoral roll carried out by the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER).
Head of the Technical Affairs and Planning Sector at the SCER Mohammed al- Sayani reviewed here on Saturday with the IFES Executive Director in Sana'a Peter Williams results of revise and amendment stage of the voters' lists.
They also discussed processes of registering, deleting and checking the electoral registry and the automatic input of the voters' data and photos as a part of the preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections on April 27th.
Williams was briefed on the activities of the technical committees, particularly in the field of automatic input of the voters' data and deletion of the deceased and repeated data..

 

SANA'A,

Member of Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum Mohammed al-Sayani together with Abdo al-Junaid met on Tuesday with a students delegation from the Political Science Department of Amsterdam University of Netherlands and the Middle East Studies Collage in Sana'a.
Al-Siyani and al-Junaid presented detailed explanations about SCER as neutral, independent constitutional authority, constitutional, legal procedural steps and activities being implemented by the SCER to carry out its tasks according to constitutional and legal merits for general election activities.
They also reviewed electoral division of all governorates of the Republic and a number of parliamentary electoral constituencies and electoral centers and local districts in addition to the previous three parliamentary and two presidential electoral rounds witnessed in Yemen, and women's participation as candidates and voters.

 

SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER has finalized process of receiving documents of reviewing the 2008 voters' tables, head of the technical affairs and planning division at the commission Mohammed al-Sayani said on Monday.
In his statement to Saba, al-Sayani said that the commission is inserting date of the voters as first phase and then pictures.
He added that another team is working to review the tables to find out cases of reputation and other illegal cases.
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SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Election and Referendum (SCER) is to represent Yemen in symposium on the election management to be held in Beirut on December 4 – 5.
In response to an invitation from the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), a delegation from SCER presided by the chairman of Foreign Affaires Ja'afar Ba-Saleh headed on Tuesday for the Lebanese Capital, Beirut, to participate in the symposium.
Ba-Saleh told Saba that the symposium organized by IFES would address the election Legitimacy, the role of monitoring bodies in managing election and the international standards for enhancing transparency in addition to media controls.
He highlighted that the delegation would review the Yemeni election experience and its previous achievements in this regard.
On the sidelines of the symposium, Ba-Saleh will held bilateral talks with the concerned bodies to discuss aspects of cooperation.
 

SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER approved on Monday a notice- be sent to state officials and members local councils who want to nominate themselves for the membership of parliament- to resign from their posts before 17th December, 2008.
Then, the SCER discussed a reported presented by the head of the legal affairs department over appeals on phase of reviewing voters' lists.
The commission also discussed a reported presented by the head of the civil society organizations over reviewing requests of participation in monitoring on elections phases. 

 

SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER said that the phase of revision and amendment of the voter lists largely succeeded .
In this regard, the electoral subcommittees across the republic finished Tuesday evening the 15-day process.
The head of the Electoral Information and Awareness Division at the SCER Mr. Abdu Mohammed al-Janadi said the number of the newly registered voters reached 1.118.941 from both males and females according to the initial statistics, indicating that the field reports are still incoming to the SCER .
Mr. al-Janadi stressed that the numbers of new voters in the voters' lists remarkably came in accordance with the estimates specified by the SCER's statistical studies.
He pointed out that the invitation to boycott registration committees was a punctilio invitation and appeared only in media.
The number of stalled registration centers fell below the 100 centers during the last two days, al-Jundi said.
On the other side, head of the supervising committee in Saada province Mr. Ahmed al-Adwal mentioned that the numbers of new voters in the province reached 4873 male and female voters during.
He said all registration centers normally carried out their tasks except one center which was held up because of tribal disputes.

 

SANA'A,

The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER said that the phase of revision and amendment of the voter lists largely succeeded .
In this regard, the electoral subcommittees across the republic finished Tuesday evening the 15-day process.
The head of the Electoral Information and Awareness Division at the SCER Mr. Abdu Mohammed al-Janadi said the number of the newly registered voters reached 1.118.941 from both males and females according to the initial statistics, indicating that the field reports are still incoming to the SCER .
Mr. al-Janadi stressed that the numbers of new voters in the voters' lists remarkably came in accordance with the estimates specified by the SCER's statistical studies.
He pointed out that the invitation to boycott registration committees was a punctilio invitation and appeared only in media.
The number of stalled registration centers fell below the 100 centers during the last two days, al-Jundi said.
On the other side, head of the supervising committee in Saada province Mr. Ahmed al-Adwal mentioned that the numbers of new voters in the province reached 4873 male and female voters during.
He said all registration centers normally carried out their tasks except one center which was held up because of tribal disputes.
 

SANA'A, Nov.19 (Saba)-

Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Elections and Referendum (SCER) Khaled Al-Sharif discussed on Wednesday with Madrid Forum's Executive Director of Programs enforcing woman's participation in elections.

The two officials discussed also programs the forum can carry out via working with great group of government's representatives and representatives from civil society, female organizations and from political parties for enforcing woman's participation in the elections and political process.

Al-Sharif affirmed that woman gets priority of the political leadership support and enjoys equal roles of man, noting that the committee's efforts are focusing on enhancing woman's participation in the forthcoming parliamentarian elections with support of the United Nation Development Program and European Union Commission.


Wroth mentioning that Madrid Forum is non-governmental organization includes more than 70 members across the world; most of these members are previous presidents and prime ministers supporting democracy.

 

SANA'A, Nov.19 (Saba)-

Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Elections and Referendum (SCER) Khaled Al-Sharif discussed on Wednesday with Madrid Forum's Executive Director of Programs enforcing woman's participation in elections.

The two officials discussed also programs the forum can carry out via working with great group of government's representatives and representatives from civil society, female organizations and from political parties for enforcing woman's participation in the elections and political process.

Al-Sharif affirmed that woman gets priority of the political leadership support and enjoys equal roles of man, noting that the committee's efforts are focusing on enhancing woman's participation in the forthcoming parliamentarian elections with support of the United Nation Development Program and European Union Commission.


Wroth mentioning that Madrid Forum is non-governmental organization includes more than 70 members across the world; most of these members are previous presidents and prime ministers supporting democracy.

 

SANA'A, Nov.17 (Saba)-

The number of new voters registered their names in voter registration records during the last six days reached more than 400,000 voters, a member of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) said on Monday.

Mr. Abdu al-Janadi said that the reviewing and amending process of voters' records started last Tuesday in all governorates of the country.

He affirmed that the process is continuous incessantly in the framework of preparation steps for the upcoming parliamentary elections to be held April 2009.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mohammed al-Sayani, member of SCER, said the number of observation committees are extremely identical with what the SCER expects.

The number of the voters who requested their voting places to be changed reached 16418 males and 5020 females.

 

SANA'A, Nov.15 (Saba)-

Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) expressed on Saturday sorrow over acts of some leaderships of Joint Meeting Parties JMP to ban some electoral committees to do their legal tasks. 

The SCER called on governors, local council and security bodies to take legal measures against these people who do such "electoral crimes" to referee them to the prosecution. 

The commission also discussed daily report from the main center of communication and follow up over works of the electoral committees. 

According to the report, 150,000 new voters have been registered by the committees until Friday.

 

SANA'A, Nov.15 (Saba)-

During the first three days of the processes of voter roll revision and rectification, almost 200.000 new voters headed to the voter registration centers to register their names.

This comes as the processes were launched early this month.

Abdul Janadi, head of the information and election awareness section at  the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER said the number of who newly registered their names reached 139.540 female and male voters so far at all electoral centers across the republic.

He said the number of the voters who requested their voting places to be changed or to get new ballot cards reached 50.000.

He said the processes of voter roll revision and amendment were going ahead well, rather in a way  better than the past, adding that the registration rate comes as projected.

The voter numbers showed the interest of the public in taking part in the upcoming election.

On Tuesday, committees in charge of revising and correcting the 2008 voter rolls started their work at 5620 electoral centers throughout the country.

In late September, the SCER, for the first time, approved the participation of female educationists in electoral main committees and subcommittees.

 

SANA'A, Nov.13 (Saba)-

 Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) has discussed here with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) technical support the program may offer to hold the next parliamentary election in 2009.

The head of Technical Affairs and Planning Sector Mohammed al-Sayani has held talks with the UNDP expert Karin Hung over mutual cooperation between the two sides.

During the meeting, they have been reviewed steps taken by the SCER to implement revise operation of voters' lists and to prepare for the 2009 parliamentary elections.

 

SANA'A, Nov.12 (Saba)-

 The Supreme Committee for Elections and Referendum reviewed on Wednesday report on the process of revising and regulating voters records.

The report indicated that the process is going in 95 percent of the 5620 election centers as planned except in some centers where the process halted due to tribal and social demands.

According to the report, the number of registered people in the voters' records during the first day of revising process has reached 55 thousands male and female voters.

The committee that expressed pleasure of the ongoing process of the election argued concerned bodies for cooperation with the SCER and exert efforts for enlightening voters, especially women in this period on participating in the upcoming elections.
 

SANA'A, NOV 10 (Saba)

Head of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER Khalid Abdul Wahab al-Sharif held on Tuesday talks in Washington with deputy assistant of Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Erica J. Barks-Ruggles.
The talks discussed several issues, including the matter of  training Yemeni cadres of monitoring polls as well as providing modern equipment for the SCER.
Al-Sharif said Yemen is sparing no efforts to promote the women's participation in elections and presenting democratic concepts in the curricula as well as improving electoral legislations.
He hailed the successful US presidential elections, affirming the importance of learning from such experience.
For her part, Barks-Ruggles expressed the US keenness to strengthen its relations with Yemen, pointing out that the US is closely monitoring the latest developments on the Yemen arena.
She praised the democracy in Yemen and the Yemeni government efforts to preserve human rights, pointing to the last Yemen presidential elections which were considered as a pilot democratic experience in the region.
Barks-Ruggles also voiced the US interested in supporting the Yemeni government to hold the upcoming parliamentary elections on time and hopes that the elections come off.
 

SANA'A, NOV 11 (Saba)

Supreme Commission for Election and Referendum (SCER) and the United Nations discussed here on Tuesday the UN support for the coming election.
The Head of SCER's Foreign Affairs sector J'afar Ba-Saleh held talks with the UN Resident Coordinator Ms. Pratibha Mehta the international assistance to Yemen via the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to enhance the institutional capacities, carry out the electoral awareness programs and to strengthen the women participation in the upcoming election.
The meeting dealt with the possibility to prop up the SCER's plans and programs to outfit the information center and establish a regional center for electoral training.
Ba-Saleh briefed the UN's official on steps the SCER has made to prepare for the imminent Parliamentary election, renewing the welcome of the international bodies want to monitor the electoral process.
 

SANA'A, NOV 10 (Saba)

 - With domestic and international observation, 11.240 electoral committees at 5620 registration centers across the republic have begun receiving registration applications of new voters, a move with which subcommittees start revising and amending the voter rolls.
This comes as a lead up to the fourth parliamentary elections ,since the reunification of the north and south in 1990, and that would be held in February, 2009.
The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum SCER has urged nationals, who like to register their names in the voter lists but those who didn't register their names in the past, to head to the registration centers.
The SCER has also asked those who wish to transfer their vote places to head to the centers.
In a statement, head of the technical affairs and planning section at the SCER Muhammad al-Sayani asked the electoral committees to exercise maximum accuracy while revising and amending the voter rolls, register full accurate information, and adhere to the SCER regulations of the process.