| Yemen Gateway: Presidential election, 1999 (710 words) |
 | President Ali Abdullah Salih, who came to power in 1978, won an unsurprising victory with 96.3% of the total votes. |
| YEMEN now finds itself in the bizarre position of holding a presidential contest in which both candidates are members of the same political party, the ruling General People's Congress (GPC). |
| The two approved candidates were Ali Abdullah Salih, the incumbent president, and Najib Qahtan al-Sha'bi, son of a former president of south Yemen (before unification with the north). |
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