Al-Houthi and the Brotherhood..the arms of terrorism besiege the Yemeni parties
English - Thursday 24 February 2022 الساعة 03:54 pm
NewsYemen, Al Ain News:
The Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - and the terrorist Brotherhood organization - the Islah Party - shared the task of targeting and suppressing Yemeni parties and restricting their national organizational activity and their entire political work.
The Houthi militia penetrated the political work early with the aim of destroying it before it overthrows the authority and bans the activity of all parties in its areas of control, including the closure of newspapers representing the parties and the arrest of journalists in them, as well as armed raids on party headquarters and the looting of all their contents of documents, literature and records related to their organizational work.
The number of Yemeni parties that participated in the electoral cycles in Yemen reached 21, as documented by the Supreme Elections Committee in the last pluralistic democratic process in the country, while the number of constitutionally registered parties in the Yemeni Parties Committee exceeds 40.
Over the past 3 decades before the Houthi coup, Yemen witnessed an unprecedented political and partisan experience that was dominated by the holding of 3 electoral cycles since the declaration of political pluralism with the declaration of Yemeni unity in 1990, to bring the partisan work out into the open after it was a secret action that began since the second half of the twentieth century.
The Houthi militia has banned all party activities and imposed on the remaining political leaders under its control the adoption of a revolutionary discourse by force of arms, and recently left a limited margin of activity under its close security supervision, as is the case with the General People’s Congress Party, the “Sana’a wing.”
A Yemeni political source told "Al-Ain News" that "the Houthi militia has recently intensified its movements to attract the remaining party leaders in Sana'a, in formal meetings with the General People's Congress Party, the Sana'a wing," and hinting to the Brotherhood's Islah Party that it could form a political alliance with it and share some positions and privileges.
The Houthi militias, through their recent moves towards the parties, are seeking to provide a political cover for their coup after the international isolation imposed on the militias after their constitutional declaration, which was the culmination of the military coup.
The so-called “constitutional declaration” of the Houthi militia in late 2014 stipulated the dissolution of the Yemeni parliament and the formation of a parallel legislative and executive authority represented by the so-called “Supreme Revolutionary Committee” as a political and military front for the coup.
However, the militias soon returned to compel the remaining members of parliament in their areas of control to hold pro forma sessions and replace others in vacant districts through illegal elections in which the recognized parties in Yemen did not participate.
And recently, the Houthi militia has not hidden its war intentions against the Yemeni parties, as it confiscated the homes of the secretaries-general of the parties and the headquarters of the parties, the financial costs of which are estimated at millions of dollars, and openly announced that they were seized and bulldozed to serve their destructive war.
While the terrorist Houthi militia, with Iranian support, unilaterally controls northern Yemen with iron and fire, the terrorist Brotherhood dominates the political decision in the liberated areas (which it controls) and pursues a repressive strategy that undermined political pluralism in the country.
The Brotherhood of Yemen, through their political leverage, the Islah Party, left only a limited area of political action for some parties to practice their activities in the liberated areas controlled by the internationally recognized Yemeni government.
The Brotherhood stifled the political work of the parties by hijacking the political decision and acquiring positions and financial support.
They also worked to stop the financial support allocated by the state to finance the organizational activity of parties that politically compete with the terrorist organization in the areas of the recognized government of Yemen.
Perhaps the dominance of the terrorist Brotherhood organization over the authorities and the military establishment in the liberated areas is the clearest indication of the exclusion of the major parties that stipulated the Gulf initiative to share power and administer the country in the widest participation of parties in governance that Yemen has witnessed.
According to party leaders to "Al-Ain News", Yemeni parties in the recognized government areas are facing difficulty in continuing their organizational activity after stopping the funding for them under the Parties Law, despite previous directives of the President (Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi) according to which the parties' financial funds were spent until 2018.
(The Brotherhood and the Houthis) are two sides of one terrorism, uniting an extremist ideological umbrella that rejects pluralism and rejects political party activities.
According to the political activist in the General People's Congress, Rashad Al-Sufi, the Houthi militias have confiscated the headquarters of Yemeni political parties and clamped down on organizational activities.
The case is not different for the Brotherhood in Yemen, according to al-Sufi, the armed arms of the Islah party launched side wars to eliminate the political components, most notably the massive arrest campaigns for members of the leftist parties in the countryside of Taiz, and excessive repression of the forces of the 35th Armored Brigade, among crimes to disrupt any political activity that is not subject to their orientations.
The Yemeni politician added to Al-Ain Al-Akhbar: "Freedom of political and partisan work is completely lacking in light of the dominance of groups that do not believe in pluralism or democracy, and since the coup of the Houthi militia, they have established the concept of mandate and the "divine right" to legitimize their Iranian project of destruction."
He explained that the Brotherhood and the Houthi militias cut off all the financial dues that the components and parties received from the state treasury in accordance with the Yemeni constitution, and this in turn constitutes a major obstacle to the party movement and its ability to exercise its political role or return to Yemen.
The Houthi militias ended all partisan and political activities, and created political placards for them through which they tried to pass their terrorist project as a cover before the international community and in accordance with their interests, as is the case of the Yemeni Brotherhood, according to the Yemeni politician.
And between the bloody Houthi crime and the suppression of the Brotherhood, new, lively forces were born on which Yemenis depended to restore their kidnapped homeland, perhaps the most important of which is the Southern Transitional Council, as the bearer of the southern cause, and the Yemeni national resistance, as forces seeking to liberate the country from the grip of the coup and terrorist organizations.
