Ali Nasir Muhammad Al-Husani ( ar, علي ناصر محمد الحسني; born 31 December 1939, in

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Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ( ar, المملكة المتوكلية اليمنية '), also known as the Kingdom of Yemen or simply as Yemen, or, retrospectively, as North Yemen, was a state that existed between 1918 and 1962 in the nor ...

) is the former

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South Yemen South Yemen ( ar, اليمن الجنوبي, al-Yaman al-Janubiyy), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (, ), also referred to as Democratic Yemen (, ) or Yemen (Aden) (, ), was a communist state that existed from 1967 to 19 ...

serving as

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of the

Yemeni Socialist Party The Yemeni Socialist Party ( ar, الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, ''al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani'', YSP) is a political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until Y ...

between 1980 and 1986. He was twice president of

and once the Prime Minister. He served as the Prime Minister from 2 August 1971 until 14 February 1985 and as Chairman of the Presidential Council from 26 June 1978 until 27 December 1978. In April 1980, South Yemeni president

Abdul Fattah Ismail Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi ( ar, عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي , translit=ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was the Marxist ''de facto'' leader of People's Democratic Republic of Yem ...

resigned and moved to

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. His successor was Ali Nasir Muhammad who took a less interventionist stance toward both

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and neighbouring

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. On January 13, 1986, a violent struggle began in

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between Ali Nasir's supporters and supporters of the returned Ismail, the

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. Fighting lasted for more than a month and resulted in thousands of casualties, Ali Nasir's ouster, and Ismail's death. Muhammad's term had lasted from 21 April 1980 to 24 January 1986. Some 60,000 people, including the deposed Ali Nasir, fled to North Yemen. He was succeeded by

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas ( ar, حيدر أبو بكر العطاس; born April 5, 1939) was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 t ...

. In 1978, Ali Nasir Muhammad overthrew and executed Rubai Ali. Mohammed was a member of the National Front, ar. الجبهة القومية (NF) as well as the

(YSP - الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني) after the YSP was formed from the UPONF in October 1978. During the

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, he pushed his supporters to operate alongside the forces of Sana'a government and against the recently re-established

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, seeking revenge for his ouster. The southern secession was repressed in July 1994 after the surrender of

and

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strongholds. The former president became an opposition figure in the

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, being named to a 17-member transitional council intended by some anti-government factions to govern

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during a prospective transition from the authoritarian regime led by President

Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

to a plural democracy. This council was opposed by the

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, the main opposition coalition, which also supported Saleh's removal from power and a transition to democracy. In February 2015, there were media reports that Muhammad was being considered as a prospective interim leader of a "presidential council" after the collapse of the government.

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