Yemen parliament approves transition government’s program

By Mohammed al-kibsi  

Yemen parliament voted on Wednesday to approve the program of the transitional government, which is led by a Mohammed Salem Ba Sindwah a former foreign minister who joined the opposition to Saleh.

The parliament offered confidence to the transition government that half of its bags gone to the ruling party GPC and the other half for the opposition parties JMP.

However the MPs stressed that the government should give priority for restoring peace and security and to fully implement the GCC reconciliation deal.

The MPS also stressed that the government should restore the essential services including electricity, water and oil derivatives for the public in Sana’a and all other main cities across the country.  

Meanwhile military positions in central Sana’a were dismantled on Wednesday in a show of faith by both sides that they want to halt implement the GCC deal and its executive mechanism.

Bulldozers crashed through the walls of sandbags fortifying the fighters' positions on a main street in Hasaba, a flashpoint area where fierce fighting took place between Sadeq al-Ahmar's tribesmen and the security forces in the past few months.

The military committee also announced starting to dismantle military positions in the southern ring road where military vehicles affiliated to the central security forces were deployed in the past few months.

President Saleh announced on Saturday he would head to Washington not only for medical treatment but also for political affairs and said he wanted to pave the road for the transition government to conduct an early presidential elections and to implement the GCC deal.

The military committee overseeing the disengagement is headed by vice president Abdu Raboo Mansour Hadi whom Saleh had handed over power to as part of the GCC deal.

The ruling party organized a demonstration in Sana’a last Monday demanding full implementation of the GCC’s deal, urgent remove all military presence from the streets of Sana’a and to restore the electricity and water services.

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