Direct presidential elections were held in Yemen for the first time on September 23, 1999. [1] Candidates in order to be included on the ballot had to be approved by at least 10% of the 301 members of the House of Representatives , but in practice this meant that only two parties in Yemeni - the ruling Universal National Congress (WPC) and the party " Al-Islah " - there were enough seats to nominate their candidates. However, Al-Islah supported the candidate of the OWC, the current President Ali Abdullah Saleh , and not his candidate.
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The main opposition candidate, Ali Saleh Obad of the Yemen Socialist Party , could not get enough support in the House of Representatives; his party subsequently boycotted the election. The turnout of 67.5% was challenged by the opposition. [2]
Nominations
The nomination of presidential candidates closed on July 13, 1999. In general, 31 candidates put forward their candidacies, although three of them were disqualified immediately for non-compliance with legal requirements: [3]
- Ali Abdullah Saleh , - they supported his Universal People’s Congress , Al-Islah , the National Council of the Opposition)
- Ubad Mukbil Ali Salih "- supported by the parties included in the Supreme Coordination Council of the opposition
- Abd al-Quwi Ahmad Hamoud Shuwi with the support of the Democratic People’s Party
- Al-Habbani Muhammad Abd al-Malik Numan Al-Abassi - Supported by Yemen’s Unity Party
- Ali Bin Ali Sabihi
- Muhammad Khizam Al-Yamani
- Amin Ahmad Sabit
- Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Hassan Al-Qari
- Abdullah Salih Salih Al-Bahiti
- Muhammad Ahmad Saad Al-Dufari
- Faisal Ali Ahmad Gaitan Al-Tawil
- Salih Hassan Abdullah Al-Azani
- Abd al-Malik Ahmad Yahya Hanash
- Ahmad Ali Hussein Yahya Al-Amri
- Mohammed Saeed Qaid Al-Utmali
- Ali Salih Al-Khuri
- Muhammad Ali Muhsin Al-Sirri
- Salih Ahmad bin Ahmad Jubah
- Muhammad Hussein Al-Jamuzi
- Ali Abdullah Salih Surob Muhsin
- Abd al-Wahhab Kanaf Raif Sha
- Mustafa Yousef Khalil
- Iskandar Ali Al-Nahari
- Aisha Mustafa Ali Naji
- Muslim Ahmad Al-Barti
- Madh Abdullah Al-Shahanov
- Ahmad Abdo Al-Ramin
- Najib Katan Al-Shabi is a member of the Universal People’s Congress who ran as an independent candidate.
The following were disqualified:
- Amin Ahmad Ahmad bin Sabit (candidates should not be married to a foreigner, and he had a Russian wife)
- Abdullah Salih Muhsin Saleh (minimum age of 40, he was 38)
- A candidate with that name is too similar to President Saleh
The Parliamentary Verification Committee eliminated four more candidates, placing 24 out of 31 candidates for parliamentary selection, in which the candidate needs 31 votes to be able to participate in the elections. Another candidate, Khalid Al-Zarraka, did not appear in the list of nominations, but was included in the parliamentary selection. Only two candidates managed to get the required number of votes; Saleh and Najib Kahtan Al Shabi. twenty-one of the 25 candidates (including Al-Zarraka) did not receive a single vote.
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | 182 | 60.5 |
| Najib Qahtan Al-Shabi | 39 | 13.0 |
| Khalid Al-Zarraka | 25 | 8.3 |
| Ubad Muqbi Ali Salih ' | 7 | 2.3 |
| Other candidates | 0 | 0.0 |
| Abstain | one | 0.3 |
| Missing | 47 | 15.6 |
| Overall | 301 | 100 |
| Source: al-Bab | ||
Results
| Candidate | Participant | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | Universal People's Congress | 3,584,399 | 96.2 |
| Najib Kahtan Al-Shabi | Independent | 141,481 | 3.8 |
| Registered Voters / Turnout | 47,011 | - | |
| Overall | 3,772,891 | 100 | |
| Registered Voters / Turnout | 5,591,422 | 67.5 | |
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||
Notes
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen , Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I , p301 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ↑ Election Watch (eng.) // Journal of Democracy : journal. - The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. - January ( vol. 11 , no. 1 ). - P. 206-211 . - ISSN 1086-3214 . - DOI : 10.1353 / jod.2000.0001 .
- ↑ Nominations for the presidency Al-Bab, July 20, 1999