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.