By: Almotamar.net - SANAA- High-ranking source mentioned Friday that president Ali Abdullah Saleh , the presidential candidate of the General People’s Congress expressed his regret for what he described as negligence in performance by the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum’s (SCER) full media video coverage of presidential candidates’ festivals in a way guaranteeing presentation of their ideas and electoral platforms to their electors. The president affirmed the necessity of managing the media coverage in an impartial and objective for and equally.

The president said the SCER must take decisive decisions in this regard in a manner realizing for the electoral process its “goal in embodying the democratic principles on which the homeland of 22 May was founded and which we adopted and cared for until they stood on their feet and became an object of appreciation and pride of all the Yemeni people of various political forces and spectra.)

The parties of the Joint Meeting Parties had complained of not transmitting all activities of their electoral festival in which their candidate for presidential elections delivered a speech which the SCER described as “unseemly.” A spokesman for the SCER said the address of Bin Shamlan contained “calling another candidate names and an offence to the democratic experiment,” indicating that address of the JMP candidate contains violations of the law.
The JMP’s festival was attended by its secretaries-general while Sheikh Abdulmajeed al-Zandany apologized for not attending due to his stand in support of candidacy of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his dissatisfaction concerning performance of leading members in his party in relation to the U.S. accusations against him. Sheikh al-Zandani is chairman of the Shoura Council of the Reform Grouping party (Islah), the biggest opposition party in the JMP. Al-Zandani had earlier announced that Ali Abdullah Saleh is still the man needed for this stage.