almotamar.net - General People’s Congress (GPC) Assistant Secretary-General has said Thursday the financial appropriation allocated for his party’s election campaign, both local and presidential, does not exceed four billion riyals ($ 20 million).

Mr Sultan Al-Barakani has made it clear that the GPC depends on its investment that is in the form of contributions in establishments and companies and grants of its solvent members.
The Assistant Secretary-General I charge of the thought and information office denied what has been mentioned about Libyan financing for the propaganda campaign for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, saying, “Any state that may finance the presidential campaign of any president it would buy his conscience, values and political decision. Ali Abdullah Saleh is not the person to hold his decision hostage of anyone..” That came in a press interview published in Newsyemen site and Al-Nidaa newspaper.
With regard to opposition parties press sources mentioned that the Yemeni Grouping for Reform Party (Islah) allocated more than 15 billion riyals to fund he campaign it is to wage with the rest of he Joint Meeting Parties members, according to what has been approved in the latest meeting of the Islah leadership that has been devoted to draw up the final map of the directions of the electoral campaign.
The site of nabanews has quoted sources it said were reliable as saying that the money has been received from many trading companies and get investments of the Islah and its leaders. Those yield huge profits especially the Sabafon for (GSM) communication, the Islamic Bank of Saba in addition to other investments in fields of real estates, fish, medicines, money exchange, honey, transport buses. Added to that the funds o donations raised from citizens through charitable societies affiliate of the Islah and other campaigns of donations the Islah organizes every now and then at mosques and other places bearing signs of relief for Bosnia Herzegovina, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon . It is to be noted that the Islah has shown a kind of dissatisfaction for the rest of the JMP dependence on the funds provided by the Islah and their non-contribution with funds to finance the campaign.
In the same context the JMP candidate for the presidential elections Faisal Bin Shamlan has disclosed his receiving of demands from some leaders of the JMP asking him to send personal messages to foreign commercial personalities to contribute financial donation to the support of the election campaign.