Yemeni parties’ statement against Houthis .. dreamy Goals away from reality

Rabab el-Hakim

The Yemeni parties issued a statement on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, expressing sharply their demands for ending Houthis’ control on the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The parties blamed the Houthi group for full responsibility of the war it imposed on the Yemenis.

In the statement signed by 7 parties, The Houthi coup has imposed its control over the political process by force. If they didn’t refuse all peaceful settlements, Yemen would have enjoyed security and stability. However, the Houthis used a policy of rejecting national consensus and political compromises, according to the statement.

the parties also called to “find a common strategy” between the legitimate government under the leadership of the Yemeni president Abdrabuh Mansour, and the Arab Alliance, to build a partnership between the two sides.

Abdrabuh Mansour and the leadership of the Arab Alliance are trying to achieve the objectives of their strategy, including building a partnership between the two parties, setting joint responsibilities, limiting the administration of the liberated areas of the government and its organizations, ending the double powers and enabling the government to impose its influence over all regions of the country. Therefore the two sides are unifying their efforts to face the Houthi coup, according to a statement published by the official Yemeni news agency “Saba”.
On the other hand, political researcher in the Yemeni affairs, Anwar al-Ashwal, explained that the solutions advocated by those seven parties is difficult to achieve, due to the poor economic and political conditions experienced by Yemen, especially after the “revolution of the hungry”, pointing out that the Houthis are behind the crisis In Yemen.
Al-Ashwal told to el-Marje’ that l the Yemeni parties will fail to achieve the objectives of their statement, which includes the elimination of Houthi’s control over Sanaa. He explained that the people is seeking to overthrow the Houthis.

He pointed out that the Yemeni situation has become worse than it was. However, some political parties did not take care of the Yemeni people’s demands or even seek solutions to the political crisis. They did not also participate in resolving the crisis in Yemen, except through oral speeches without real change, leaving the citizen alone to solve the problems of the political scene.

He stressed that the only party that feels the crisis and the citizen is the “General People’s Congress”, unlike the rest of the parties that only achieve foreign interests, so they don’t provide something concrete to achieve peace in Yemen.

From his side, the Yemeni journalist and researcher Osama Talib said: “The parties can not find solutions to the crisis in Yemen, especially what the Yemeni citizen suffers”. He explained that this suffering is an accumulation of systematic looting practices done by Houthi militias, which adopted the policy of starvation and poverty to make people subjected to their rule. They seek to destroy and ruin the country; so they impede any political solutions.

Talib added that some of the political parties calling for the overthrow of the Houthis rule are only cards employed by other countries which have interests interests in Yemen. For example, thr Islamist-oriented Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah), which is subject to the Qatari policy and the interests of Turkey, just like Iran which use Houthis to extend its political influence in Yemen as a scarecrow for the Gulf region.
However, he pointed out that the majority of the Yemeni parties are fighting to claim power in a religious or perhaps tribal way.
The parties that have signed the statement are: the General People’s Congress, the Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Al-Islah), the Salafist Al-Rashad Union, the Popular Power Union, the National Solidarity Party, Nahda Movement for Peaceful Change and the Peace and Development Party.