Yemen: All set for the presidential election with one candidate

This post is part of our special coverage of protests in Yemen 2011 .

Missing a day for the election of "choice with a single candidate," unprecedented in Yemen, which will begin on February 21 and that will end the 33 year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and will cost the country more of $ 48 million [in].

Here are some comments from journalists covering the events:

@ Kasinof :

I just arrived in Sanaa after two months of absence. Hadi posters everywhere, no checkpoints, few armed tribesmen Hasaba. It feels different.

@ Tomfinn2 :

Here the campaign is surprisingly thorough, posters on every corner, until I began to dream of Hadi ... # Yemen

@ Kellymcevers :

It's good to be back in # Yemen. The bullets do not fly, the airport does not burn, elections tomorrow. The morning is quiet throughout the old city.

@ Ionacraig :

Yemen's national anthem has been ringing constantly rotating outside my window the last half hour. Thanks, I've been brainwashed.

@ JamjoomCNN :
It is amazing to see so many pictures and posters of all Sanaa Hadi (and much less of Saleh since the last time I was here) # Yemen

@ HughNaylor :

Yemen: Movenpick Hotel where journalists are registered for the "election" of a new president. Photo of former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, hangs at the entrance.

@ Adammbaron :

I am more than willing to bet that the posters of the future president Hadi outnumber the inhabitants of # sanaa [Sanaa] # yemen

The YouTube video entitled "Together we will destroy," published by @ ezatwagdi , mocks the official campaign video and takes its name, "Together we build", the video posted on the official election campaign:

سوا نفنيها | أنميشن عزت وجدي: http://youtu.be/0_YQUFUiMXA

برومو من تصميمي لمهزلة الإنتخابات اليمنية شديدة التنافس

The video portrays Saleh's supporters and his former opponent dancing happily carrying signs reading "Together, Feb. 21, to come to power."

The posters are translated as follows:

Yes a good successor to a good predecessor.

God forgives what happened before, yes to build a new Yemen.

A President for Yemen, not a president for the government.

We announced our support for peaceful quiet person (literal translation of the name of presidential candidate Hadi) and peaceful.

Only me and the rest are cats.

Wish me luck in the elections ... Hadi.

A chart published in the article by @ KatieZimmerman in Critical Threats posed an important question, assuming that Yemen will get rid of the Saleh government elections with these calls, how to be rid of the parent network of the family of Saleh, who actually still rule in Yemen.

Review the chart ( http://bit.ly/zYBD9P ) in my new article http://bit.ly/zN5DUZ in # Yemen. Thanks to @ TeamPraescient

Notes:

Saleh's government relied on a network of clientage built in the course of three decades government strengthened his family and close associates in top positions throughout the government and army. The scope of Saleh arrived in all organs of state, making it almost impossible to disentangle its network of clientage of the true state. In this regard, Yemen Saleh was much closer to the Iraq of Saddam Hussein that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, where the army retained a considerable degree of autonomy.

This post is part of our special coverage of protests in Yemen 2011 .

Written by Noon Arabia · Translated by Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe · View original post [en] · Comments (0)
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