Rashida al-Qaili

Rashida al-Qaili (Arabic: رشيدة القيلي) is a Yemeni journalist who ran for President in 2006 with an anti-corruption focus. She also intended to increase freedom. She was the second woman to stand after Sumaya Ali Raja. al-Qaili was a columnist whose satirical comments that appeared in the Al-Wasat newspaper and the Al-Shura newspaper until it was "suspended".^[1]

Her campaign was not taken seriously,^[2] and success was seen as unlikely, but it gained attention because of Yemen's culture.^[3][4][5]