1. Ali Abdullah Salih (General People's Congress, Islah, National Opposition Council)
2. Ali Salih 'Ubad Muqbil (parties of the Supreme Co-ordination Council for the Opposition)
3. Abd al-Quwi Ahmad Hamoud Shuwi'a (People's Democratic Party)
4. Al-Habbani Muhammad abd al-Malik Nu'man al-'Abassi (Yemeni Popular Unity Party)
5. Ali bin Ali Sabihi - employee
6. Muhammad Muhammad Hizam al-Yamani - employee
7. Amin Ahmad Thabit - employee
8. Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Hassan al-Karidi - employee
9. Abdullah Salih Salih al-Bakhiti - employee
10. Muhammad Ahmad Sa'ad al-Dhufari - employee
11. Faisal Ali Ahmad Ghaaithan al-Tawil - employee
12. Salih Hassan Abdullah al-'Azani - employee
13. Abd al-Malik Yahya Ahmad Hanash - employee
14. Ahmad Ali Hussein Yahya al-'Amri - employee
15. Muhammad A'id Qa'id al-'Uthmali - retired
16. Ali Salih al-Houri - retired
17. Muhammad Ali Muhsin al-Sirri - lawyer
18. Salih Ahmad bin Ahmad Jubah - lawyer
19. Muhammad Hussein al-Jamuzi - trader
20. Ali Abdullah Salih Muhsin Suroub - trader
21. Abd al-Wahhab Qanaf Sha'if - trader
22. Mustafa Youssef Khalil - journalist
23. Iskandar Ali al-Nathari - goldsmith
24. Mustafa Ali Naji 'Aiyash - soldier
25. Ahmad Muslih al-Barti - electronic engineer
26. Ma'adh Abdullah al-Shahani - head of charitable organisation
27. Ahmad Abduh al-Ramim - sheikh
28. Najib Qahtan al-Sha'abi - Member of Parliament

A further three nominees failed to meet the legal requirements:

1. Amin Ahmad bin Ahmad Thabit (has Russian wife - candidates must not be married to a foreigner)
2. Abdullah Salih Salih Muhsin Surub (only 38 - minimum age is 40)
3. A nominee whose name is considered too similar to that of President Salih

IN THE NEXT stage of the process, a parliamentary vetting committee, chaired by Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar (leader of the Islah party and Speaker of parliament), met to consider the presidential nominees. Al-Ayyam newspaper described its meeting on July 20 as heated and suggested that GPC and Islah members of the committee do not want to approve Ali Salih 'Ubad Muqbil, the Socialist party leader, as a candidate - though some members objected.

Eventually, the committee put forward 24 of the 31 nominees for consideration by the full parliament. Voting by Members of Parliament was:    

The other 20 nominees failed to attract any votes. Mr Zarraka's name did not appear in the list of nominees published by Attariq. A total of 253 MPs voted; 47 were absent and one abstained.