The "Leadership Council" revives hopes of restoring state institutions in Sana'a
English - Sunday 10 April 2022 الساعة 11:53 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, an analytical survey:
Two days after the announcement of the transfer of the powers of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi to a presidential leadership council to complete the implementation of the tasks of the transitional phase, the controversy is still raging in public circles and Ramadan councils in Sanaa and the neighboring governorates.
In the beginning, a state of optimism and broad interest in the public street in the city of Sanaa can be monitored with the outcomes of the Yemeni Riyadh consultations, announced on the morning of Thursday, April 7, 2022 AD, which transferred the powers of Hadi and his deputy to a presidential leadership council headed by Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi and the membership of 7 others from various political forces involved in The framework of an internationally recognized government.
And if the optimism of public opinion in Sanaa seemed to turn the page of Hadi and Ali Mohsen, absent from the media, and enveloped in a kind of precaution and precaution for what could raise the concerns of the Houthi militia in Sanaa and its neighboring governorates in this regard, the public conversations on board transportation, mosques and councils Qat and the public markets were not without smiling signals exchanged between friends or relatives.
Late removal of "Hadi and Mohsen"
Abdullah Al-Rimi, a taxi driver in Sanaa, believes that the removal of Hadi and Ali Mohsen from the head of power was long overdue, assuming that Hadi fulfilled his promise upon receiving power from President Ali Abdullah Saleh, when he promised to hand over power to the elected president after him, meaning the year 2014.
In his interview with NewsYemen, Al-Rimi did not hide his hope that the outcomes of the Riyadh consultations would be crowned with tangible achievements in terms of direct services to citizens in Sana’a. “We hope to resume the payment of salaries according to the 2014 statements.”
Social researcher and political activist, Saif Rashid, believes that the outcomes of the Riyadh consultations raised the hopes and aspirations of the street in Sanaa to achieve a breakthrough in the system of crises experienced by the population in Sanaa and its neighboring governorates since the coup of the Houthi militia in September 2014.
Expectations of the outbreak of Houthi crises in Sanaa
In his speech to NewsYemen, Rashid said that the unification of the ranks of the political forces on the other side (the internationally recognized government) undoubtedly raised the hopes of the street in Sanaa for the return of the state and its service institutions, in light of the Houthi militia transforming the state's service institutions into collection institutions and ideological and sectarian ideologies. Doctrinal, divisive and racist practices.
Noting that the Houthi militia created, over the past seven years, a cumulative barrier between it and the people, by doubling the burdens of citizens and imposing successive price doses, adopting the levies system, imposing royalties, looting tax and customs revenues and other revenues, and the growing manifestations of financial and administrative corruption, and disbursing the salaries of employees to their loyalists only. and its beneficiaries, in an unconstitutional racist and separatist practice.
He added: "This reality has made people despair and try to adapt to an exceptional reality, which the absence of the legitimate government and the authority of the virtual state presidency contributed to its formation during the past seven years."
Introduction to filling the void in Sana'a
The dismantling of what he described as the system of corruption at the head of the legitimate authority was considered a prelude to filling the vacuum in Sanaa and the areas under the control of the Houthi coup, which is also mired in a pool of corruption and deliberate and systematic tampering with state institutions and their symbolism at various levels.
According to the announcement of the Riyadh-Yemeni Consultations, the Presidential Leadership Council included in its membership: Sultan Ali Al-Arada, Tariq Muhammad Salih, Abdul Rahman Abu Zara’a, Abdullah Al-Alimi Bawazeer, Othman Hussein Majali, Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, and Faraj Salmin Al-Bahsani.
The presidential declaration approved that every member of the Presidential Leadership Council should have the rank of Vice President of the Presidential Leadership Council, and that the president and members of the Council should abide by the principle of collective responsibility and their quest to achieve the highest degree of consensus among them.
Its terms of reference include (administering the state politically, militarily and security throughout the transitional period) and adopting a balanced foreign policy that achieves the supreme national interests of the state and builds it on the basis of independence and common interests in a manner that preserves the sovereignty, security and borders of the state.
