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Yemeni Parliamentary Election, 1993
Parliamentary elections were held in Yemen on 27 April 1993, the first after Yemeni unification. The General People's Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 123 of the 301 seats. Voter turnout was 85%. Electoral system The country continued to use the electoral system of North Yemen, with the 301 members of Parliament elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.Nohlen ''et al''., p298 Results Performance of each Party File:1993 Yemeni parliamentary election results by governorate - GPC.svg, , alt=General People's Congress 1–10% 10–20% 20–30% 30–40% 40–50% File:1993 Yemeni parliamentary election results by governorate - YSP.svg, , alt=Yemen Socialist Party 1–10% 10–20% 20–30% 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% File:1993 Yemeni parliamentary election results by governorate - Al-Islah.svg, File:1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Yemen Arab Republic Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Yemen Arab Republic on 5 July 1988. As political parties were banned, all 1,300 candidates for the 128 seats ran as independents. Around 40 seats were won by tribal candidates, whilst around 30 were won by candidates sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood. After the election, a further 31 members were appointed by the President.Yemen Inter-Parliamentary Union Voter turnout was 77%. Electoral system Of the 159 members of Parliament, 128 were elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system, with the remaining 31 appointed by the President.Nohlen et al., p297Results References {{Yemeni elections 1988 in North Yemen 1988 elections in Asia, North Yemen Elections in Yemen Non-partisan elections Elec ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemeni Unification
The Yemeni unification () took place on 22 May 1990, when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) united, forming the Republic of Yemen. Background (1918–1990) North Yemen became an independent Kingdom in the context of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in November 1918. Aden, in South Yemen, was administered as part of British India, and in 1937 became a British colony in its own right. The larger part of South Yemen was a British protectorate, effectively under colonial control. In one of the many proxy conflicts of the Cold War, a South Yemeni insurgency (with the support and backing of the Soviet Union) led by two nationalist parties revolted, causing the United Kingdom to unify the area and in 1967 to withdraw from its former colony. Following the North Yemen Civil War, the north overthrew the monarchy and established a Nasserist republican government led by a military junta that included tribal repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party - Yemen Region
Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years. In the 9th century BCE, the Assyrians made written references to Arabs as inhabitants of the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. Throughout the Ancient Near East, Arabs established influential civilizations starting from 3000 BCE onwards, such as Dilmun, Gerrha, and Magan (civilization), Magan, playing a vital role in trade between Mesopotamia, and the History of the Mediterranean region, Mediterranean. Other prominent tribes include Midian, ʿĀd, and Thamud mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Bible and Quran. Later, in 900 BCE, the Qedarites enjoyed close relations with the nearby Canaan#Canaanites, Canaanite and Aramaeans, Aramaean states, and their territory extended from Lower Egypt to the Southern Levant. From 1200 BCE to 110 BCE, powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Democratic Party Of Yemen
Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen () was a political party in North Yemen, founded by a conference of the members of the Arab Nationalist Movement in North Yemen in June 1968. The conference resolved to break its organizational ties with the central structures of the ANM and form the Revolutionary Democratic Party as an independent Marxist-Leninist party.Armed Struggle in North Yemen in , No. 22. (Nov., 1973), pp. 24-26. Sultan Omar was the general secretary of the new party.Halliday, Fred '' The Arabian Peninsula Opposition Moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Nationalist Party – Yemen
The Social Nationalist Party – Yemen (, ''al-Ḥizb al-Qawamī al-Ijtimā'ī - al-Yaman''), is a Yemeni nationalist political party in Yemen. The party got its accreditation on 3 February 1997, its leader since then is Abdul Aziz al-Bakir. The party fiercely opposes the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen and underlines the territorial integrity as well as the history of Yemen which goes back thousands of years and which it claims reinforces the distinct Yemeni national identity. The SNPY frequently condemns an "American-Zionist alliance", which it considers Saudi Arabia a part of, accuses it of trying to destroy Yemen and supports the Syrian Government. It condemned the interpretation of the Houthi government as an Iranian proxy, equating the Houthi side of the war with the Yemeni state instead and accusing Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi of separatism. On 21 September 2021, SNPY's leader al-Bakir congratulated the "revolutionary leader" Abdul-Malik al-Houthi to the 7th annivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Popular Forces
The Union of Popular Forces (, ''Ittiḥād al-Quwa ash-Sha'abiyah''), sometimes also written as Union of Yemeni Popular Forces or Federation of Popular Forces is a liberal Zaydi Shi'a political party in Yemen. It was founded in 1961 and has been characterized as a small party of Zaydi intellectuals. Like the Islamist Hizb al-Haqq, it has been founded by Sayyids, which are members of the traditional elite of the country's north who claimed descent from the family of Muhammad. The Party's founder and leader was Ibrahim al-Wazir, who has also been active as a cleric since the 1940s. Al-Wazir was an influential contemporary Islamic intellectual who had published dozens of books over his life, during some of which he lived in the diaspora. During his period in Egypt, he had contact with intellectuals such as the Islamist thinker Sayyid Qutb, the liberal trade unionist Gamal al-Banna and the Islamic modernist Mohammed al-Ghazali, which influenced his worldview. In summer 1995, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Front (Yemen)
The National Democratic Front (), also known as the ''Jabha,'' was a leftist opposition militant group in Yemen Arab Republic. It founded as an umbrella of various opposition movements in North Yemen on February 2, 1976 in Sana'a. The five founding organisations of NDF were the Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen, Organisation of Yemeni Revolutionary Resistors, the Labour Party, the Popular Vanguard 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. Four days later, the Popular Unity Party merged into the Yemeni Socialist Party (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 Ba'ath Party, and the Democratic Septembrist Organization. In 1978 the Ba'ath Party left the front and in 1979 the June 13 Front of Popular Forces joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Truth (Yemen)
The Party of Truth (, ''Hizb al-Haqq'') is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political party in Yemen. History Established by Ahmad al-Shami in 1990 in order to oppose al-Islah, the party won two seats in the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often ... in the 1993 elections, the first after unification. However, the 1997 elections saw its vote share drop from 0.8% to 0.2%, and it lost both seats. In 2002 it joined the opposition Joint Meeting Parties alliance. Al Jazeera, 10 March 2011 It received only 0.1% of the vote in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation
The Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation (, ''Al-Tantheem Al-Wahdawi Al-Sha'abi Al-Nasseri'') is a Nasserist political party in Yemen. The party was founded in Taiz on December 25, 1965. The party was legalized in 1989. In 1993 the party held its 8th conference. The conference elected an 89-member politburo. Abdul-Malik al-Mikhlafi was elected the new general secretary of the party, replacing Abdul Ghani Thabet. Thabet was general secretary of the party 1990–1993. At the last legislative elections in 2003 the party won 1.85% of the popular vote and 3 out of 301 seats. The party has been a member of the opposition alliance known as the Joint Meeting Parties since its formation in the early 2000s. The party publishes the newspaper ''al-Wahdawi''. In 2011, the party has participated in the Yemeni uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. During the civil war In the Yemeni civil war (2014–present), Yemeni Civil War, the party positioned itself strongly against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region ( ''Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Quṭr al-Yaman'') is the Yemeni regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (based in Damascus). The regional secretary of the party in Yemen is Quasim Salaam. History and political activities Ba'athism in Yemen originates back to the 1950s. The party carried out clandestine political activity until 1990. The party was officially registered as the 'Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party' on 31 December 1995, while the pro-Iraq party registered as the ' National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party' in 1997. The party contested the 1993 parliamentary election in alliance with the National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, winning seven seats. After the election, however, relations between the two Ba'athist groups soured and they contested further elections separately. In the 1997 and 2003 parliamentary elections, the party won two seats. In 2003, the party received 0.66% of the national vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Islah (Yemen)
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform, frequently called al-Islah (; ), is a Yemeni Sunni Islamist movement established in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, with Ali Saleh's blessing. The first article of Islah basic law defines it as "a popular political organization that seeks reform of all aspects of life on the basis of Islamic principles and teachings". Islah is more of a loose coalition of tribal and religious elements than a political party. Its origins are in the Islamic Front, a Muslim Brotherhood affiliated militia supported by Saudi Arabia to combat the Marxist National Democratic Front during the Cold War. The Islamic Front regrouped after the unification of Yemen in 1990 under the banner of the Islah Party with considerable financial backing from Saudi Arabia. Islah has long been identified as a client of Saudi Arabia. On its official website, Islah summarizes its foreign policy agenda; one of five major goals is " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemeni Socialist Party
The Yemeni Socialist Party (, ''al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani'', YSP), officially the Socialist Party Organization (), is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Yemen, political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's National Liberation Front (South Yemen), National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until Yemeni unification in 1990. Originally Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist, the party has gradually evolved into a Social democracy, social democratic opposition party in today's unified Yemen. History Aden Emergency and NLF In 1963, against the backdrop of the previous year's North Yemen civil war, revolution in North Yemen, the Aden Emergency, local uprising against United Kingdom, British Aden Colony, occupation spread to the Aden Protectorate. The British declared a state of emergency and tried to hold on to Aden for years, but eventually Withdrawal from Aden, withdrew in 1967, marking the birth of the independent S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
