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SANA'A, May 18 -- Yemen's Ministry of Local Administration has announced the results of Saturday's gubernatorial elections in the capital and in the other governorates, with the exception of Al-Dhale' where voting was postponed due to an inadequate quorum of voting staff, which are local councilors who are the only voters eligible to elect governors.
The process was hampered in Al-Dhale' governorate, where the majority of local councilors belong to the Joint Meeting Parties. However, the elections took place the following day, and independent candidate Brigade Ali Qassim Taleb (a local from Dhale') was the only candidate and a former socialist was elected as governor. This is the only governorate where members of the opposition Joint Meeting Parties participated in the elections, however, they did not represent their parties, and represented themselves as independent. According to JMP spokes person, there had been fraud in this process claiming that there should not have been any kind of elections in Al-Dhale' due to the incomplete quorum. Denying that their members could have participated in the voting. In response to this, Ali Saleh Abdullah head of the supervising committee emphasized that there had been no violations, and he is ready to present the registration and voting cards with the finger prints of the voters.