Yasin Said Numan ( ar, ياسين سعيد نعمان; born 1948) is the former General Secretary 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 ...

from 2005 to 2015. He is the current ambassador of Yemen to the United Kingdom since 2015. Numan joined the Yemeni National Front, which later became the

, when he was 17. In 1986 he became the

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986 until

Yemen 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 Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i unification in 1990, under Chairman

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 to ...

, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister. Numan had previously been Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister. After the

Unification of Yemen Yemeni unification () took place on May 22, 1990, when the area of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (also known as South Yemen) was united with the Yemen Arab Republic (also known as North Yemen), forming the Republic of Yemen (known as ...

Numan became the interim

Speaker of Parliament The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England. Usage The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerf ...

, until the parliamentary election of 1993Former Presidencies
/ref> when he was replaced by

Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar Sheikh Abdullah bin Husayn bin Nasser al-Ahmar ( ar, عبد الله بن حسين الأحمر‎) (1 November 1933 – 29 December 2007) was a politician and tribe leader of Yemen. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Yemen) ...

. He became the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party in 2005. During the

Yemeni Revolution The Yemeni Revolution ( intifada), also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the ...

of 2011, Numan was critical of 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 ...

and supported a plan by the GCC for Saleh to step down. He escaped from an assassination attempt in August 2012; he was one of several Socialist Party politicians targeted during 2012.

References

Prime Ministers of South Yemen Speakers of the House of Representatives (Yemen) Living people Yemeni Socialist Party politicians 1948 births {{Yemen-politician-stub