List of political parties in Yemen

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Before the Yemeni Revolution in 2011 and the following civil war, Yemen was a one party dominant state in which the General People's Congress (GPC) held power.

## Legal status

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Yemen's Political Parties Law mandates that political parties be viable national organizations comprising at least 75 founders and 2,500 members and not restrict membership to a particular region.[1] The government provides financial support to political parties, including a stipend for newspaper publication.[1]

## Elections 2003–2006

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The GPC captured 238 of 301 seats in parliament in the 2003 elections.[1] In the September 2006 elections for local and governorate councils, the GPC garnered 315 seats in the governorates (74 percent of the popular vote) and 5,078 local council seats (74 percent of the popular vote).[1] In the September 2006 presidential election, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) backed opposition candidate Faisal bin Shamlan, whose success in garnering 22 percent of the popular vote was viewed at the time as a first step in challenging the political stronghold of President Saleh and the GPC.[1] However, disputes between the GPC and the JMP in 2007 over election law amendments, coupled with the JMP’s opposition to President Saleh’s proposed democratic reform measures, have halted initial attempts to forge a dialogue between the two parties.[1]

## List of parties

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For the sake of clarity, this section is divided into three lists. These are major parties, minor parties and defunct parties. Major parties are defined as parties which gained a seat in the last elections in 2003. Since there has been a long time without elections with a lot of political shift in between, parties that either control territory with their armed wing (such as Ansar Allah) or have over 10.000 likes on facebook are also taken into this category. All other operating parties are listed under minor parties. Parties that are long inactive are listed as defunct, although some might be revived at some point.

### Major parties

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Party  | Acronym  | Leader  | Political position & ideologies

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| General People's Congress
المؤتمر الشعبي العام
al-Muʾtamar aš-Šaʿbī al-ʿĀmm | GPC  |

* Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (pro-Hadi faction)
* Sadeq Amin Abu Rass (pro-Houthi faction)
* Ahmed Saleh (pro-Saleh faction)

* Centre
* Arab nationalism
* Yemeni nationalism
* Pan-Arabism
* Big tent

| Yemeni Congregation for Reform
التجمع اليمني للإصلاح
at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ | Al-Islah  | Mohammed al-Yadumi |

* Anti-Zionism
* Sunni Islamism
* Salafism
* Tribalism

| Yemeni Socialist Party
الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني
al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani | YSP  | Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf  |

* Islamic socialism
* Arab nationalism
* Social democracy

| Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation
التنظيم الوحدوي الشعبي الناصري
at-Tanẓīm al-Waḥdawī al-Shaʿbī al-Nāṣirī | NUPO  | Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi | Yemeni unionism
Nasserism

Anti-Houthi

| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي
Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī | ASBP  | Qassam Salam (pro-Houthi)  | Ba'athism
Arab socialism
| Ansar Allah
أَنْصَار ٱللَّٰه
ʾAnṣār Allāh | Houthis  | Abdul-Malik al-Houthi |

* Anti-Zionism
* Autocrat
* Irredentism
* Shia Islamism

| Yemeni Rashad Union
اتحاد الرشاد اليمني
Ittihād ar-Rashād al-Yamanī[2] | \-  | Ahmad Muhammad Nasir

Muhammad Musa al-Amri

| Salafism
Islamic democracy
Yemeni unity
| National Solidarity Party
حزب التضامن الوطني
Ḥizb al-Taḍāmun al-Watanī[3] | Tadhamon  | \-  | Centrism
| Southern National Coalition
الائتلاف الوطني الجنوبي
al-I'tilāf al-Watanī al-Janūbī[4] | SNC  | Ahmad Salih al-Issa  | South Yemeni separatism
| Al-Ahrar Organization
تنظيم الاحرار
Tanẓīm al-Aḥrār[5] | \-  | Abduh Bashar  | Center-left
Anti-corruption
pro-Houthi
| Yemen Renaissance Movement
تيار نهضة اليمن
Tayyār Nahḍah al-Yaman[6] | YRM  | \-  | Anti-Zionism
Big tent
Yemeni unity
Economic liberalism
| Union of Popular Forces
اتحاد القوي الشعبية
Ittiḥād al-Quwa ash-Sha'abiyah[7] | \-  | \-  | Arab nationalism
Islamic Democracy[8]

### Minor parties

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Party  | Acronym  | Leader  | Political position & ideologies

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| Yemeni Republican Federal Party
الحزب الجمهوري الاتحادي اليمني
al-Ḥizb al-Jumhūrī al-Ittihādī al-Yamanī[9] | YRFP  | Sharifah al-Muqatari  | Republicanism
Yemeni unity
Abolishment of militias
Pan-Arabism
| New Yemen Party
حزب اليمن الجديد
Ḥizb al-Yaman al-Jadīd[10] | \-  | \-  | Centrism[11]
anti-Houthi
| Free Yemen Party
حزب اليمن الحر
Ḥizb al-Yaman al-Ḥurr[12] | FYP  | Nasir bin Yahya al-Arjali  | Pro-Houthi
| National Accord Party
حزب الوفاق الوطني
Ḥizb al-Wafaq al-Watani[13] | \-  | \-  | Big Tent[14]
Pro-Houthi
| Nasserist Reform Organisation
تنظيم التصحيح الشعبي الناصري
Tanzim at-Tashikh ash-Shabi an-Nasiri | NRO  | \- Mujahed al-Quhali  |

* Nasserism
* Arab nationalism
* Arab socialism

| Liberal Party of Yemen
الحزب الليبرالي اليمني
al-Ḥizb al-Lībrālī al-Yamanī [15] | \-  | \-  | Liberalism
| Peace and Development Party
حزب السلم والتنمية
Ḥizb as-Salam wal-Tanmiyah[16] | SLM  | Murad al-Qudsi  | Islamic Democracy
| Social Nationalist Party - Yemen
الحزب القومي الاجتماعي - اليمن
al-Ḥizb al-Qawamī al-Ijtimā'ī - al-Yaman[17] | SNPY  | Abdul Aziz al-Bakir  | Anti-Zionism
Pro-Houthi
Syncretic politics
Yemeni nationalism
| Southern Arabian League Party
حزب رابطة الجنوب العربي
Ḥizb Rabitah al-Janub al-'Arabi[18] | \-  | Muhammad 'Ajrumuh al-Awlaqi  | Southern Separatism
Conservatism
| Yemeni Labour Party
حزب العمل اليمن
Ḥizb al-'Amal al-Yamani[19] | \-  | Mukhtar al-Qushaybi  | Center-left
Social Democracy
| National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي القومي
Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī al-Qawmi | NASB  | Ahmad Shutri

Qasem Salam (pro-Houthi)

| Ba'athism
Arab socialism
| Yemenyoon Current
تيار يمنيون
Tayyār Yamaniyūn[20] | Yemenyoon  | \-  | Big tent
Yemeni unity
| National Democratic Front Party
حزب الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية
Ḥizb al-Jabhat al-Wataniyah ad-Dīmuqrātiyah[21] | NDFP  | Nasir an-Nasiri (pro-Houthi)  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| Justice and Development Youth Party
حزب شباب العدالة والتنمية
Ḥizb ash-Shabab al-'Adālah wat-Tanmiyah[22] | \-  | Bakil al-Humayni  | pro-Houthi
| an-Nahdhah Movement for Peaceful Change
حركة النهضة للتغيير السلمي
Ḥarakat an-Nahḍah li-t-Taghayīr as-Salamī[23] | an-Nahdhah  | Ali al-Ahmadi  | Social Conservatism
Islamic democracy
| Justice and Building Party
حزب العدالة والبناء
Ḥizb al-'Adālah wal-Bināʾ[24] | JBP  | \-  | Islamic democracy
| Arab Hope Party
حزب الأمل العربي
Ḥizb al-Amal al-'Arabī [25] | \-  | Layla ath-Thawr  | Center-left
Civic nationalism
| Social Labour Party (Wazef)
حزب العمل الاجتماعي الوزف
Ḥizb al-'Amal al-Ijtimā'ī al-Wazif[26] | Wazef  | \-  | Center-left to left-wing
| National Progress Party
حزب التقدم الوطني
Ḥizb at-Taqadum al-Watani [27] | \-  | \-  | Centrism[28]
| Yemeni Workers' Party
حزب العمال اليمني
Ḥizb al-'Ummāl al-Yamanī[29] | \-  | \-  | Left-wing
| Yemeni Dignity Party
حزب الكرامة اليمني
Ḥizb al-Karamah al-Yamanī[30] | \-  | Ahmad Abdurrahman al-'Ammari  | Patriotism
Centrism[31]
Militarism
pro-Houthi
| Liberation Front Party
حزب جبهة التحرير
Ḥizb Jabhat at-Tahrīr | \-  | \-  | Arab nationalism
| People's Democratic Party
حزب الشعب الديمقراطي
Hizb ash-Sha'ab ad-Dimuqrati[32] | Hashd  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
pro-Houthi
| Yemeni Social Peace Party
حزب السلام الاجتماعي اليمني
Ḥizb al-Salām al-Ijtimā'ī al-Yamanī[33] | \-  | \-  | Center-left
| Party of the Democratic Union of Popular Forces
حزب الاتحاد الديمقراطي للقوى الشعبيه
Hizb al-Ittihad ad-Dimuqrati lil-Quwa ash-Sha'abiyah[34] | \-  | \-  | Arab nationalism
pro-Houthi
| Democratic Nasserist Party
الحزب الناصري الديمقراطي
al-Ḥizb al-Nasiri al-Dimuqrati | DNP  | -Yassin Abdu Saeed  | Center-left
Nasserism
Arab nationalism
| Hizb ut-Tahrir
حزب التحرير
Ḥizb at-Taḥrīr | HT  | Ata Abu Rashta | Islamism
Caliphalism
| Party of Truth
حزب الحق
Ḥizb al-Haqq | HP  | \-  | Zaydi Islamism[35]
| Party of the League of the Sons of Yemen
حزب رابطة أبناء اليمن
Hizb Rabitah Abna' al-Yaman[36] | Rai  | \-  | Conservatism
Islamic Democracy
| Unionist Popular Liberation Party
حزب التحرير الشعبي الوحدوي[37] | UPLP  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| Yemeni Unionist Congregation
التجمع الوحدوي اليمني
at-Tajammu' al-Wahdawī al-Yamanī | \-  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism[38]

### Defunct parties

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Party  | Acronym  | Leader  | Political position & ideologies

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| Democratic Unionist Party
الحزب الوحدوي الديمقراطي
Ḥizb al-Wahdawi ad-Dimuqrati | \-  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| Democratic Septembrist Organization
التنظيم السبتمبري الديمقراطي
at-Tanẓīm as-Sabtambarī ad-Dīmuqrātī | \-  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| People's Vanguard Party (South Yemen)
حزب الطليعة الشعبية
Ḥizb at-Tali'ah ash-Sha'abiyah | \-  | Abdallah Badhib  | Ba'athism
| Popular Democratic Union
الاتحاد الشعبي الديمقراطي
Ittihad ash-Sha'abi ad-Dīmuqrātī | \-  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen
الاتحاد الشعبي الديمقراطي اليمن
Ḥizb ad-Dīmuqrātī ath-Thawrī al-Yaman | \-  | Sultan Omar  | Marxism-Leninism
Arab nationalism
| Yemen Green Party
حزب الخضر الاجتماعي
Ḥizb al-Khadhr al-Ijtimā'ī | \-  | \-  | Green politics
| Yemeni League Party
حزب الرابطة اليمنية
Ḥizb ar-Rabitah al-Yamaniyah | \-  | \-  | Center
| Yemeni Popular Unity Party
حزب الوحدة الشعبية اليمنية
Ḥizb al-Wahdah ash-Sha'abiyah al-Yamaniyah | YPUP  | \-  | Center-left
Arab nationalism
| Yemeni Progressive Organization
التنظيم التقدمي اليمني
at-Tanzim at-Taqadumi al-Yamani | \-  | \-  | Center-left

## List of coalitions

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* The National Council for the Forces of the Peaceful Revolution was declared on 17 August 2011, amidst the Yemeni Revolution, to unite the opposition groups, parties, coalitions, and youth protesters. Among the 143 representatives elected to sit on it are leaders from Al-Islah, the South Yemen Movement, the Alliance of Yemeni Tribes, and the defected First Armoured Division.[39][40]
* The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) was formed in 2005 by five opposition parties to effect political and economic reform.[1] It includes the northern-based, tribal, and Islamist-oriented Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) and the secular Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), which represents the remnants of the former South Yemeni leadership.[1] According to Al Jazeera English, it was formed in 2002 and includes Islah, Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), Hizb Al-Haq (a semi-religious party), the Unionist party, and the Popular Forces Union party.[41] The spokesperson as of 23 March 2011 is Muhammad Qahtan, who replaced Mohammed Al-Sabri.[42]
* The Common Forum includes the five biggest opposition groups in Yemen, including Reform, Socialist, Nasserist, Popular Force and al-Haq.[43][44] (Likely just another name for the JMP.)

## See also

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* 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution

## References

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43. ^ Yemen activists breaking new ground, BBC News, 2 February 2011
44. ^ Yemeni police struggle to break up clashing protesters, Al Arabiya News Channel, 14 February 2011

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* National Democratic Front
* National Solidarity Party
* Party of Truth
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* Union of Popular Forces
* Yemen Renaissance Movement
* Yemeni Labour Party
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* Alliance of Yemeni Tribes
* National Liberation Front
* Organisation of Yemeni Revolutionary Resistors
* People's Vanguard Party
* Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf
* Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen

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