By:Jamil al-Jadabi - SANA’A, almotamar.net- The preliminary statistics show that the overall number of applicants to run in the local council elections has reached 19,313 at the level of provinces and districts, with the exception of Hajja province, a source at the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) said.
“The number of candidates for local elections at the level of districts has reached 17319, of whom 7585 are independent candidates, 5249 belong to the General People’s Congress (GPC), 3140 Islah Party, 763 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), 165 Nasserite Unionist Party (NUP), and 91 belong to Ba’ath Socialist Party (BSP). The rest belong to other political parties,” SECER Information Officer, Abu al-Janadi told the almotamar.net.

At the level of provinces, al-Janadi went on to say, there are 1994 candidates, of whom 1242 are independent, 344 belong to the GPC, 226 Islah Party, 74 YSP, 14 NUP, and 27 belong to BSP. The rest of the candidates represent other political parties.

In the last day of the Applications Reception period, the number of women candidates has reached 164; most of them belong to the GPC.
According to sources, the increase in the number of female candidates is attributed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s call to support women candidates representing various political parties.