almotamar,net - The Yemen parliament approved Sunday decision on returning a report on candidates for corruption-fighting body in Yemen to the committee assigned presidency of the parliament regarding procedures related to the nominees for the body membership. The move by that commended proposal by head of the General People’s Congress parliamentary bloc Sultan al-Barakani who said the report must include information on the past of candidates “because we choose for a committee like this the past of the persons not their names and without enough statements about them it will be difficult for the MPs to know whether the candidate is honorable and his history qualifies him for fighting corruption or not.”

MP Abdulkarim Shaiban described what the committee has done as insufficient job as it should have be ascertained of the documents of the candidates presented by the Shoura Council, adding that the committee’s report as defect as the candidates are 24 rather than 30 as the law of corruption fighting stipulates.

Member of the committee MP Ali Abu Haliqa by clarifying that the task of examining statements is the duty of the Shoura Council that selected thirty applicants for candidacy for membership of the body out of 83 persons who whose files were accepted, let alone that about 200 persons; files were rejected by the Shoura for not meeting the legal conditions.

The committee headed by deputy speaker of the parliament Jaafar Basaleh has mentioned that it received 28 candidates and it has reviewed statements of each of them, indicating that the committee received withdrawal requests from five candidates and the parliament is supposed to select 11 from them for the body’s membership in the few days time.