By:almotamar.net - SANA'A- Almotamar.net has come to know that the Islah Party leadership (Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen) refused Wednesday a request for the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) leadership to withdraw its independent candidates to run for local council elections in a number of constituencies in Aden governorate in favor of YSP's candidates before the end of the Withdrawal Period.

Sources close to the two parties in Aden said Islah refusal of the YSP's request came as a reaction to a previous action by the YSP that refused Islah's request to withdraw its candidates in some constituencies in favor of the other party's candidates.
Sources added that some Islah members who run for elections as independent spoke out that they wouldn't agree with their leadership in case it agreed at the eleventh hour to withdraw in favor of the YSP candidates. They justified that they submitted their candidacy applications as independent candidates, especially after their leadership in Aden refused their requests to run for the elections as Islahi candidates, claiming there are candidates better than them.