Yemen CCYR declares boycott presidential election, calls for revolution to continue

 Sanaa-The Civil Coalition for Youth Revolution (CCYR) has decided to boycott the Yemen presidential election scheduled for Feb 21.

The CCYR, a civil movement has major role in launching the uprising against the autocratic regime of President Saleh, calls people of Yemen with its revolution components to refuse such election, to not participate and to continue their revolution till its goals are appropriately fulfilled.

During an exceptional meeting held last Thursday and Friday, the CCYR Council elected Dr Nabeel Alsamei as president of the coalition, Nashwan Bagash as secretary general, Yousef Alsarary as field department chairman, Aref  Alsabri, chairman of media, Suhail Alkherbash as head of financial department, while the council did not alter Mr. Ahmed Saif Hashids presidency of the preparatory committee of the coalitions public conference.

The leading CCYR staff election comes within framework of the establishing councils decision taken previously to rotate leading positions, to organize work of the coalition, enhance its performance, and to distribute tasks. The job rotation is a tradition that the council have done for the second time throughout last months.

Statement of Release:

The CCYR refuses participating in the election as it falsify people power and will, being progress of absent legitimacy, and its foregone results would be a warranty of a valid law of immunity that protect criminals, get them free from prosecution, abandons blood of martyrs and disregards rights of blood owners. Such election would fool reason, support dictatorship and unilateralism of decision making, fabricates citizens awareness regarding false democracy of one candidate that he has to vote, without any legal constitutional reference. It reproduces the regime for which the revolution took place, offering it an opportunity to return to power again, and the most harmful is that the election paves the way to violate rule of law and opens a new leaf of counterfeiting.

The CCYR denies such an election as it contributes to an abortive revolution, precludes achieving demands and aspirations of the people, be held according to so-called Gulf initiative that offers criminals an immunity and half of the power and, maintain same faces of political corruption.

The CCYR, taking into consideration the big sacrifices of the Yemeni people at Dignity Friday, Taiz, Kintaki circle and Qaas holocaust, reconfirms an absolute refusal of any solutions that undermine the noble goals of revolution and sacrifices made.

The CCYR  confirms that it would not accept any bargaining as a drop of blood is more precious than any authority.

Yemen people is  on verge of a second year of peaceful revolution that was highly appreciated by the whole world, so  they should not allow enemies of revolution implement the plans aiming at defeating its goals. -“End”

The CCYR is a Yemen-based civil movement includes 52 alliances of revolutionary youth activists around Yemen of about  12, 000 members. It was founded in March, 2011, by a liberal group contributed in major role in launching the uprising against the autocratic regime of President Saleh to maintain revolutionary blocs and individuals struggle for a democratic modern civil state. It was initiated by Mr. Ahmed Saif Hashed, a human rights activist and Independent Member of the House of Representatives.

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t  aims at establishing a modern civil & democratic state that positively reacts with modernization on the basis of equal citizenship, human rights, international human rights treaties, social justice, political pluralism, freedom of expression and opinion and peaceful transition of power.

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