Yemeni Socialist Party
The Yemeni Socialist Party ( Arabic الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني al-Ḥizb al-Ištirākī al-Yamanī , English Yemeni Socialist Party , abbreviation YSP; often called the Socialists ) is a political party in Yemen .
Before the reunification of Yemen, it was the sole ruling party in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen .
The current party leader is Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf . The YSP is a full member of the Socialist International .
Political orientation
The ideology of the YSM used to be, at the time of the one-party system, a radical Marxism combined with close ties to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc . Today the party is moderately socialist with social democratic tendencies and fights peacefully for free elections, the separation of powers and a reform of the political system. She also advocates Arab socialism . It is currently forming an opposition alliance with the socialist Nasserists , the nationalist Ba'ath Party and the Islamists ( Islah Party).
history
The Yemeni Socialist Party was the former unity party in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in southern Yemen . The party was founded in 1978. In 1986, conflicts over the political opening of the country led to a two-week civil war within the YSM in which the conservative communist head of state Ali Nasir Muhammad was overthrown.
Today, however, the YSM is an opposition party in the Republic of Yemen, which was reunited with the Yemeni Arab Republic (in Northern Yemen) in 1990 . On December 28, 2002, the second most important politician of the YSM, Jarallah Umar , was killed at a party conference. On November 2, 2005, Ali al-Sa'awani was sentenced to death for killing Jarallah. It was criticized that the court did not discuss the motives and backgrounds of the crime in the interests of the government. The convict confessed to the fact that he saw in Jarallah the architect of the coalition of the socialists and the Islamist Islah.
elections
In the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the YSM won every election. The parliamentary elections in April 1997 were boycotted by the YSM because they were discredited in the South Yemeni electorate after the civil war in 1994 and because their real estate and accounts were confiscated after the end of the conflict they did not have the necessary options for an election campaign. As a result, the YSM received only 3.8% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in April 2003 and got 8 out of 301 seats in the House of Representatives, the parliament. In the presidential elections in 2006, she and three other opposition parties put up a joint presidential candidate, who was defeated by President Ali Abdullah Salih .
General Secretaries
- Abd al-Fattah Ismail (1978–1980)
- Ali Nasir Muhammad (1980-1986)
- Ali Salim al-Beidh (1986-1994)
- Ali Saleh Obad (Moqbel) (1994-2005)
- Yasin Said Numan (2005-2015)
- Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf (2015-present)
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- ↑ a b c d English: Country profile: Yemen (PDF; 132 kB). Library of Congress , Federal Research Division (August 2008).