The House of Representatives (''Majlis al-Nuwaab'') is the
lower house of the Parliament of
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 ...
. It shares the legislative power with the
Shura Council
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, the
upper house
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. The Assembly of Representatives has 301 members, elected for a six-year term in single-seat
constituencies. It is one of the rare parliamentary chambers in the world to currently have no female representation.
The House of Representatives was established in 1990 after the unification of Yemen for a transitional period. An election hasn't been held for the body since 2003. An election was set for 27 April 2009, but
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Saleh postponed it by two years on 24 February 2009. However, the election did not take place on 27 April 2011, and was again postponed until the
next presidential election, sometime in February 2014.
In January 2014, the final session of the
National Dialogue Conference (NDC) announced that both elections had been delayed, and would occur within 9 months of a referendum on a new constitution which had yet to be drafted. However both the
GPC and
Houthi representatives on the National Authority for Monitoring the Implementation of NDC Outcomes have refused to vote on the new constitution drafted by the constitution drafting committee, which submitted it in January 2015.
In February 2015, the
Houthis briefly dissolved parliament before reportedly agreeing to reinstate the 301-member assembly in
UN-brokered talks. Under the agreement, it will be augmented by a "people's transitional council" serving as the
upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restric ...
.
Since the civil war, the House of Representatives had held semi-regular sessions in San'aa in Houthi-held territory. In 13 April 2019, the first session was held in
Seiyun
Seiyun (also transliterated as ''Saywun'', ''Sayoun'' or ''Say'un''; ar, سَيْئُوْن Hadhrami pronunciation: , Literary Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩪𐩺𐩱𐩬 ''S¹yʾn'') is a city in the region and Governorate of Hadh ...
, in Hadi-controlled
Hadhramaut Governorate.
Latest elections
The last
parliamentary election in Yemen took place in 2003.
See also
*
List of speakers of the House of Representatives of Yemen
*
Politics of Yemen
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List of legislatures by country
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References
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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 ...
Politics of Yemen
Government of Yemen
1990 establishments in Yemen