Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region

Political party in Yemen

The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - قطر اليمن Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Quṭr al-Yaman) is the Yemeni regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (based in Damascus).

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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 regional secretary of the party in Yemen is Quasim Salaam.

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 1997 and 2003 parliamentary elections, the party won two seats. In 2003, the party received 0.66% of the national vote. The party supported Ali Abdullah Saleh in the 1999 presidential election.[3] In December 2008, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party agreed to again coordinate their political activities.[4]

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.[5][6]

In 2011, the party participated in the Yemeni Revolution against President 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.[7]

On the 5th of January, 2020, they condemned the American drone strike that assassinated Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, saying the two were martyred and that the attack threatened international and regional peace.[8]

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

Election Party leader Votes % Seats +/–
1993 80,362 3.60%
7 / 301
Increase 7
1997 20,409 0.7%
2 / 301
Decrease 5
2003 Quasim Salaam 40,377 0.68%
2 / 301
Steady

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References

  1. ^ Archived copy Archived 28 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ https://x.com/D_alsabaei?t=PJnxrkKJzDETzRxWrBXnZw&s=09
  3. ^ National Information Center. الأحزاب السياسية في الجمهورية اليمنية
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  6. ^ "صحافة نت". Archived from the original on 13 February 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Lawyer Linda Mohammed Resigns From Ba'ath Party In Yemen". nationalyemen.com. 3 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  8. ^ "Yemen's Baath Party condemns assassination of Soleimani, al-Muhandis". SabaNet - Yemen News Agency SABA. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

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