Almotamar.net - Yemeni politicians and academics have been unanimous Wednesday the measures taken by members of parliament on Monday in dropping the draft amendments of the elections law and keeping the operative law represented a constitutional move that decided the differences which were threatening impediment of the parliamentary elections scheduled to take part in Yemen in April 2009.

Politician Ahmed al-Soufi viewed that the parliament dealt in a sense of responsibility with its duties and decisively put an end to all forms of political blackmailing and returned confidence to the people that the upcoming elections would be held on time under the same law they were held in the previous elections. He pointed out that move was the solution after failure to reach a settlement with the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) on what they had agreed on with the General People's Congress (JPC) despite the fact that parties of the JMP are minority.

The director of the Democratic Institute told almotamar.net Wednesday that hostage of the majority to blackmailing of the minority would have changed the elections into a political game where the only player would have been are the minority parties that insisted on amending the law entirely and nevertheless they did not commit themselves to what they have pledged.

Al-soufi ascribed the JMP non-commitment to 9its promises to those parties non-seriousness especially after the president of the republic has met their demands whether regarding the release of detainees or with regard to amendments related to lections the results of which would have been announced in ten days and that violates the simplest norms of democratic traditions. He added that despite of those dangerous concessions the operative law had also been approved by all of the parties. He said there are individual calculations with each party of the JMP but they are grouped against one side and when this side showed flexibility towards their demands then difference emerged on who is going to representing them. It is a problem of shares rather than accepting this law or that.

On his part the professor at Ibb University Dr Tareq al-Mansoub said the JMP backing off their promises and disavowal of their commitments and delay in presenting the names of their candidates to membership of the elections commission cannot be explained but as the desire of those parties for keeping the atmospheres of the crisis in the hope to benefit from that for realisation of subjective and partisan gains. He considered that the parliament' assumption of its national responsibility by rejecting the new amendments submitted by the JMP, approval of the operative law and naming of candidates to the membership of the elections commission placed the Yemeni people in front of a fact that parties of the JMP remain fully as parties of crises and would not thrive without them and they cannot stand fast before the upcoming elections.

Professor of political sciences at Sana'a University Dr Najib Ghallab said the main problem of the JMP is that it has played the game in a way meant to push the General People's Congress to keep the existing situation concerning the elections law and the elections commission and the Islah party has been the major player in that. He attributed that to an internal crisis the JMP is experiencing and contradiction of interest among its members. Ghallab said the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen suffers weakness in its ranks that dispersed the political vision and some of the active forces in it would head for the GPC similar of what happened in the presidential elections.