The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region ( ''Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Quṭr al-Yaman'') is the

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

i regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (based in

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). 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

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and 2003 parliamentary elections, the party won two seats. In 2003, the party received 0.66% of the national vote. The party supported

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in the 1999 presidential election. In December 2008, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party agreed to again coordinate their political activities. In November 2010 one of the key leaders of the party in Yemen, Ali Ahmad Nasser al-Dhahab, who was assistant general secretary of the Regional Command and Member of Parliament since 1993, died. In 2011, the party participated in the

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against

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Ali Abdullah Saleh. In March 2013, Linda Mohammed, the head of the region's Women section, left the party in protest at the Yemenite leadership's continued support for Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Ba'ath. On 5 January, 2020, they condemned the American drone strike that assassinated

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and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, saying the two were martyred and that the attack threatened international and regional peace.

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

References

External links

Facebook page of the party
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Establishments in the Kingdom of Yemen Formerly banned socialist parties Organizations of the Arab Spring Organizations of the Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) Political parties in Yemen Socialist parties in Yemen Yemeni revolution

History and political activities

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

See also

References

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