General People's Congress
| المؤتمر الشعبي العام General People's Congress |
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| founding | August 24, 1982 in North Yemen |
| Headquarters | Sanaa |
| Alignment | Arab nationalism |
| Parliament seats | 238 of 301 in the House of Representatives of Yemen (2003) |
| Website | www.almotamar.net |
The General People's Congress ( Arabic المؤتمر الشعبي العام al-Muʾtamar asch-Schaʿbī l-ʿĀmm , DMG al-muʾtamar aš-šaʿbī l-ʿāmm , English General People's Congress ; abbreviated MSA , GPC or AVK ) is a political party in the Republic of Yemen . It is the ruling party and currently dominates the country's political system.
The party is authoritarian and nationalist . Its official ideology is Arab nationalism , its path is the Arab striving for unity . The party was founded by the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih .
history
The General People's Congress was the former unity party in the Yemeni Arab Republic in northern Yemen. It dominated the one-party system there until unification with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in southern Yemen in 1990. In 1993, the party ran for the first time in a democratic election. She won the elections and formed a coalition with the Yemeni Association for Reforms ( Islah ). In the parliamentary elections of April 1997, the General People's Congress also won an absolute majority with 187 seats and this time was able to rule without the Islah.
In February 2001 the state party was able to strengthen its power with a third constitutional reform secured by a referendum. In June 2006, party chairman Ali Abdullah Salih announced that he would run again as his party's presidential candidate after mass demonstrations organized by his party called for it. In the last national parliamentary elections on April 27, 2003, the party won 58% of the vote and received 238 of the 301 seats in the Majlis al-Nuwwāb al-Yamanī , the Yemeni parliament.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ahmed A. Hezam Al Yemeni: The Dynamic of Democratisation - Political Parties in Yemen . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , 2003, ISBN 3-89892-159-X .
- ↑ a b YEMEN Majlis Annowab (House of Representatives) 2003 election website Interparliamentary Union