The National Democratic Front ( ar, الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية) was founded as an umbrella of various opposition movements in

North Yemen North Yemen may refer to: * Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962) * Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a ...

on February 2, 1976 in

Sana'a Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Governo ...

. The five founding organisations of NDF were the

Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen ( ar, الحزب الديمقراطي الثوري اليمن) was a political party in Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, founded by a conference of the members of the Arab Nationalist Movement in North Ye ...

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, the Labour Party, the

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and the Popular Democratic Union.MERIP Reports, No. 130, (February 1985). On March 5, 1979, the five founding parties of the NDF merged to form the

Yemeni Popular Unity Party Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and sha ...

. Four days later, the Popular Unity Party merged into 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 ...

(but retaining the name 'Popular Unity Party' for activities in North Yemen). The NDF did however continue to exist as a separate structure. It was joined by Qassam Salam's

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, and the Democratic Septembrist Organization. In 1978 the Ba'ath Party left the front and in 1979 the June 13 Front of Popular Forces joined it.

As the National Democratic Front Party

The remnants of the party became known as the National Democratic Front Party ( ar, حزب الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية, ''Ḥizb al-Jabhat al-Wataniyah ad-Dīmuqrātiyah''), which still operates and which participated among others in the

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, where it failed to win a seat and got 0.12% of the vote. During the

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, it issued a statement demanding elections to be held as planned on April 27, stressing its importance for political pluralism and the peaceful transfer of power. In September 2014, it signed a statement expressing support for the

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, which also underlines that this takeover would represent the people of Yemen and not only the

Houthis The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that ...

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