Talk:Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan

Faisal bin Shalman constitutes the single biggest threat to the dictactorship ruler of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh who has remained in power for 28 years. The ruling party led by Saleh is willing to utilize all its power and facilities of the state to avoid a humiliating defeat by Shamlan, who has become the idol of intellects and reformists throughout the country. His confirmation in getting the needed percentage to run for presidential elections today (July 24) has set the stage to have him become the most likely candidate to ever seriously compete with Saleh.

With fluency in English, French and Arabic, and having an excellent academic and management background, and with a clean record in terms of honesty and dedication, Shamlan has all the virtues and features any leader could need, which is in total contrast to the 6th school student with Military background Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was only able to remain in power by pleasing the inner circules and those elements who have been hoping to keep him in power to secure their own interests.

But the ruling party is expected to capitalize on the illiteracy, fear, unawareness in the public to win their votes as most of Yemen's 24 million population is poor, illiterate, and unaware of their rights to change their leaders. The GPC (ruling party) has been systematically keeping the people isolated from political life by hardening their economic status, forcing them focus on making ends meet rather than self-educate in political reform and democracy.

It's a very delicate time because Islah, which enjoys a signficant presence in the community level will take things seriously in raising people's awareness about Shamlan and people's rights to change their leaders. If this campaign yields some results -along with transparent and free elections- it is not ruled out that the 28-year-long regime of Saleh will be over this year.