Yemen Postpones Parliamentary Elections To 2011. ElectionGuide.
Yemen's parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Thursday to delay parliamentary elections by two years, moving them from their scheduled date of April 27 of this year to sometime in 2011. Yemeni lawmakers overwhelming supported the amendment, which President Ali Abullah SALIH suggested as part of a deal to avert a political crisis. In recent months prominent opposition parties led nationwide protests calling for electoral reforms to guarantee a fraud-free vote and threatened to boycott the April 27 poll if such reforms were not enacted. The president and opposition parties agreed to a number of major reforms intended to move the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system and adopt a proportional representation electoral system for the parliamentary elections. Opposition parties boycotted last year's vote for provincial governors and claimed the 2006 vote which confirmed SALIH in power was fraudulent. International observers acknowledged some irregularities in the 2006 poll but certified that the overall electoral process was "genuine."
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