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Yemen parliament meets under arms threat
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... and President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s militias failed in a bid Saturday, to gain the legal recognition required to establish an insurgency-administered supreme political council, after too few members attended the session. The Houthis called the meeting in a bid to establish an insurgency-administered supreme political council which the militias announced the creation of a week ago. But under Yemeni law, the parliament requires a minimum attendance of 151 of the 301 members of parliament for the meeting to be determined quorate and therefore legally well enough attended to be able to press ahead and hold votes that are binding. According to Al Arabiya’s correspondent the number in attendance was significantly lower with members in attendance numbering between 80 and 85. Despite this, the militias continued in their attempt to hold the meeting and vote amid a heavy presence of gunnies, despite the low attendance. Yasser Alraeini, the minister of state for the implementation of the Yemeni dialogue outputs, told Al Arabiya that Saturday’s session would have no legitimate effect. Alraeini added that the ousted Saleh was plotting to eliminate the rest of the parliament’s legitimacy. Several politicians have been exhausting all efforts in order to escape Sana’a, according to sources. The representatives have received death threats if they did not attend the parliamentary session scheduled for Saturday, which had been called on by ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. In a statement carried on the state news agency Saba, Hadi called the parliament session illegal and warned that MPs attending could be prosecuted as criminals. In a statement released Friday UN Special Envoy to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Ismail Ould Cheikh said occurring violations were intolerable and did not aid the grinding of the peace processor. He further reiterated that a comprehensive solution for Yemen could only be achieved by political means. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-14 |
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