UK supports Yemen’s election circus

Britain’s Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, has called on the Yemeni people to seize the opportunity for “political freedom and exercise their democratic rights” as he referred to the country’s presidential election.

The Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh’s right hand aide, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, is the only candidate in the election as there is no minimum percentage of votes set and Hadi can become Yemen’s president with even one vote.

“I strongly welcome tomorrow’s Presidential election in which the Yemeni people have the opportunity to show their support for political freedom and exercise their democratic rights,” said Burt on Monday 20 February.

“The interim election represents a key moment in Yemen’s political transition, and I call on all Yemenis across the political spectrum to take part,” he added.

However, the Yemeni regime’s mockery of democracy has been severely criticized by the country’s opposition groups, including the Southern Shia group, who have boycotted the election calling for the removal of the regime in its entirety.

Britain’s support for the one-candidate presidential election in Yemen comes as the British media have negatively covered the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s order for a referendum on a new constitution as Britain calls for intensified engagement with armed rebels in Syria.

The intensified ‘engagement,’ which Britain’s Foreign Office boasts of as a part of an Anglo-French plot for Syria, takes the form of supplying arms and intelligence to the armed gangs, while the British media continue to subvert President Assad’s political reforms.

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