almotamar.net - Head of the Political Office of the General People's Congress (GPC) the Jurist Abdullah Ahmed Ghanim said Wednesday the draft constitutional amendments announced by the president of the republic in last Ramadan came after extensive study of developments of the political system in Yemen and in the light of the presidential platform according to which the president won the confidence of the people in the presidential elections held on 20 September last year.
Ghanim has made it clear the GPC is working on drawing up the detailed texts of those proposals in preparation for referring them to the parliament and then put them to the referendum so that the people to decide.
In response to stance of the opposition parties of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) in Yemen regarding the proposals Ghanim said the parties o the JMP felt the illusion that they were able to contest the party of majority without their having majority and therefore they think themselves able to dictate what the want and that is just an illusion. He pointed pout that the illusion those parties are living in has led them to move to the stand of boycotting the state rather than boycotting the ruling party only, which he considered as a dangerous stand and warned the JMP against its aftermaths and may lead to serious consequences for those parties and the Yemeni society.
In an interview published by he independent newspaper Elaf in its Tuesday issue Mr Abdullah Ahmed Ghanim clarified that the amendments aim at creating a qualitative transfer in the type of the political system in Yemen especially in relation to the present form of the mixed parliamentary presidential system and to move to the full presidential system.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.