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Topic Discussion I
Politics of Hard Choices
Political Transition and Economic Restructuring
Room 5
(16 of 22 pages)
Chair: Thank you very much. Now I am going to go to the five other speakers
and then I would like to give the last words to our two presenters to have some final comments so let me turn to
you please.
Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Mohammed El Tipsi (ph). I am the Deputy in Parliament for the
Party; I am of the National Council for the Opposition Parties.
In fact it is useful from this dialogue to come up with what would be forged as recommendations so that we can
come up with points that express our aspirations. In this discussion we want democracy to be an end not a means
by which we please others. IN Yemen we have had the experience of the elections and we are proud of the fact that
three was no fraud in the parliamentary elections in the elections for the year 1993 and 1997. We also have a free
press sort of. We also have a committee for political party's affairs and the law for political parties and the
law for the media or the press law. The problems that we face and we have to talk about this honestly, let us benefit
from the experience of each other and in order to come out with some definition of emerging democracies which could
be defined perhaps as walking on two legs, both political and economic legs. So, there has to be fair and just
judiciary and an independent judiciary and without such a judiciary we cannot make achievements for any member
of society who participates in decision making in accordance to a free will would be able to guarantee his rights
through the judiciary.
The other point is that all the political parties should contribute to wiping our corruption from our institutions
so there cannot be any development with corruption and there can be no democracy with dictatorship. We have to
sort out these issues by allowing for democratic political forces to contribute to elimination of corruption in
our institutions. Our country is in need of assistance and so that this assistance will not be channeled through
areas for which it was not targeted to start with, we have to accompany our political developments with developments
on the economic level and with development of the judiciary system. I do not want to take up too much of your time.
Thank you.
Chair: Your excellent comments remind me that economic reform and liberalization require both to state in
some ways in terms of what is an aggressive role in the economy and a more aggressive one in terms of rooting out
corruption, civil service reform etc. and I thank you for those insights. Sir.
Speaker: I am Mohammed (ph), Teacher of the University, Teacher of Political Sciences. I should take up
two points.
The first point is related to the emerging democracies concept and the second point is related to the relation
between democracy and development, sustainable development. I shall touch upon these two comments very briefly.
As for emerging democracies definition, it is concluded from the joint definition given by the participating countries,
economics theoretically liberal democracy that includes pluralism and professional pluralism as well as a peaceful
distribution of power, free elections, fair elections, balanced elections in order to separate powers and the building
of the state of the institutions under the rule of law. These countries in practicality are quite remote from achieving
this principalized democracy that is why they are good emerging democracies. That is to say they are heading towards
democracy as is in the theoretical terms.
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