Al-Houthi militia intends to hold new elections, including the constituencies of representatives sentenced to death
English - Tuesday 06 July 2021 الساعة 08:35 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
Political sources in the capital, Sanaa, revealed to NewsYemen that the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, intends to hold new complementary parliamentary elections in several districts, which will be the second after the complementary elections that were held in mid-April of 2019, which included 24 electoral districts in the areas under its control.
According to the sources, the militias began discussing arrangements for holding these elections and assigned their leaders, who had appointed them to the Supreme Elections Committee, to begin implementing the requirements for holding by-elections.
The sources indicate that the discussions conducted by the Houthi militia leaders are still related to the number of constituencies that will be declared vacant and the possibility of holding elections in them, which will include the constituencies of the deceased members of the House of Representatives, whether those who died while still practicing their activities within the framework of the Sana’a Parliament, which is under the control of the militias, or the representatives who They died outside Yemen, whether those who joined the pro-legitimacy parliament or those who did not take a stand with one of the parties, in addition to the parliamentary circles for whom the Houthi militias issued death sentences and those whose parliamentary membership was dropped by their colleagues in the Sana’a parliament under Houthi pressure.
The Houthi militia had held supplementary elections in 24 electoral districts on the fifteenth of April of the year 2019, as these elections did not witness any mass turnout except in some districts in which the sons of the conference candidates who died were nominated, during which the militias imposed some of their elements as candidates, even some of them Their elections were held in areas outside their geographical constituencies, as is the case with the militia leader, Muhammad Ahmed Yahya Al-Junaid, who was elected as a representative of the 33rd constituency in Taiz governorate, while he was formally elected in the militias’ control area in Al-Hawban, which is outside his geographical constituency, while only dozens of people participated. In some constituencies in which candidates from the militia elements came down.
The militias’ actions come within the framework of their efforts to Houthiize all state authorities and institutions, including the House of Representatives, which imposed the appointment of two of its leaders as vice-chairs of its congressional president, Yahya al-Ra’i, including Abdul Rahman al-Jama’i, who is one of the Houthi leaders who were elected in the 2019 by-elections.
While the House of Representatives in support of legitimacy held only one orphan session in the city of Seiyun, which resulted in the election of Sultan al-Barakani as his deputy and deputies to the Speaker of the Council, the remaining members of the House of Representatives affiliated with the conference and those elected in the by-elections continue to attend the sessions of Parliament, which has become just another institution. The militias dominate and impose their decisions on them, as the militias use it to pass many laws that establish their hegemony over state institutions in an unprecedented way.
