Yemen presidential election 2012

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The 2012 presidential election in Yemen was held on February 21 and announced following the 2011 protests in Yemen . The president is elected for a two-year term and is intended to create the basis for democratic change through a government of national unity and constitutional reform. The only candidate was the previous Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi .

prehistory

As part of the Arab Spring , protests against the governments in various Arab states have been taking place since December 2010, which also attacked Yemen at the end of January 2011 . The authoritarian ruling President Ali Abdullah Salih since 1978 was blamed in particular for severe poverty and hunger. After months of violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators as well as tribal militias, Salih agreed in November 2011 to an agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council , according to which the official business would be passed to Vice President Hadi and new elections should take place within 90 days. Salih is now in the United States for medical treatment.

In advance

In South Yemen, which was independent until 1990, opposition groups called for an election boycott and a split from North Yemen. One day before the election, a grenade attack was carried out on a polling station in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden .

In mid-January, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed great concern about the situation in Yemen. She warned that as a result of the unstable situation, the influence of al-Qaeda was growing. These had brought the Yemeni city of Rada'a under their control. US President Barack Obama, on the other hand, announced in a letter to Hadi a few days before the election that the USA would be “a strong and reliable partner” of Yemen and at the same time affirmed the hope for political change.

execution

Fighting broke out in the implementation of the election. At least four people died, two of them in Aden , where half of the 20 polling stations were closed due to security problems. In the south of the country around ten people are said to have died in the clashes.

In many places in the south controlled by al-Qaeda rebels in Yemen , such as Zindjibar , people did not vote. Election observers reported that 60 percent of the population voted. Hadi was elected president with 99.8 percent of the vote.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Hermann: No choice in the election In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Tom Finn: Yemenis take to the streets calling for President Saleh to step down In: The Guardian, January 27, 2011, accessed February 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ Yemen's President signs agreement on transfer of power. tagesschau.de, November 23, 2011, archived from the original on November 25, 2011 ; Retrieved February 20, 2012 .
  4. ↑ "Saleh is gone, but the corrupt system remains" In: derStandard.at, January 27, 2012, accessed on February 20, 2012.
  5. ↑ Focus Online: Approaching presidential elections cause tension February 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Attack on polling station in Yemen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. OVB Online, February 20, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ovb-online.de  
  7. ↑ Clinton worried about the situation in Yemen In: Focus Online. January 17, 2012, accessed February 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ Obama pays tribute to likely winners of the presidential election in Yemen In: The West. February 19, 2012, accessed February 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ Presidential election in Yemen overshadowed by violence. In: ORF . February 21, 2012, accessed February 21, 2012 .
  10. ↑ a b At least ten dead in Yemen's presidential election. In: ORF . February 21, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Election observer: 60 percent participation in the presidential election in Yemen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stern.de, February 22, 2012, accessed on February 24, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  
  12. ↑ Yemen: 99.8 percent for Saleh's successor Hadi In: ORF.at, February 24, 2012, accessed on February 24, 2012.