Almotamar.net - SANAA-The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCEC) that it will send to general prosecution anyone practicing election propaganda inside the mosques in the Friday prayers sermons or others. It said that is in accordance with the law of elections and referendum.


Mr. Abdeh Mohammed al-Janadi, member of the SCEC, the chairman of the election information and enlightenment said in a press conference held at the Information center today the SCER received statements from the ministry of endowments reporting that some mosque preachers are practicing election propaganda during Friday prayers sermons.
Al-Janadi denounced the act of some mosque preachers by practicing election propaganda inside mosques, some of them members of parliament. He said, “If they would not stop that he SCER will submit a request to the parliament to lift immunity of those MPs in order to send them to court, calling mosque preachers to stick to their role in guidance and preaching in full neutrality.”
He said it is shameful to try one of them on charge of bias and legal violation in the practice of election propaganda and that they should not place themselves as a party in political bickering.
On his part, member of the SCER, the head of civil society organizations sector Alawi al-Mashour pointed out that the number of local observers for the presidential and local elections has amounted to 120 thousand representing 41 organizations and the number is increasing. He said the observation must be impartial and observers must be qualified to perform their tasks in the best way and they have to be acquainted with the regulating laws and rules of electoral procedures.
He added “We look forward at the end of every democratic process in Yemen to obtain reports prepared by some election international observation organizations. Some monitors talk of existence of violations while they are not and that is attributed to not qualifying enough the observer who has monitored them and his little knowing of the laws and rules according to which the election process was done, confirming that it is necessary the organizations taking part in election observation to qualify their observers and educate them on the electoral laws and evidence related to them. Mr. Alawi confirmed that the SCER depends on transparency in distribution of observers and granting organization the freedom of distributing their employees.