The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen Region ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - قطر اليمن ''Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī - Quṭr al-Yaman'') is the

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ...

i regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (based in

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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 general secretary of the party in Yemen is Mohammed Al-Zubairy. 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

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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 Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

in the 1999 presidential election. In December 2008, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and the National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party agreed to again coordinate their political activities. 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. In 2011, the party participated in the

Yemeni Revolution The Yemeni Revolution ( intifada), also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the ...

against

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Ali Abdullah Saleh. On the 5th of January, 2020, they condemned the American drone strike that assassinated

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and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, saying the two were martyred and that the attack threatened international and regional peace.

Electoral history

House of Representatives elections

References

External links

Website of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Yemen RegionFacebook page of the party
1951 establishments in Asia Arab nationalism in Yemen Ba'athist parties

Establishments in the Kingdom of Yemen Formerly banned socialist parties Organizations of the Arab Spring Organizations of the Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) Political parties in Yemen Socialist parties in Yemen Yemeni Revolution {{Yemen-party-stub