Politics Of Yemen

• Country name:
• conventional long form: Republic of Yemen
• conventional short form: Yemen
• local long form: ‫ﺍﻟﺠﻤﻬﻮﺭﯾّﺔ ﺍﻟﯿﻤﻦ‬ (Al-Jumhuriyyah al-Yamaniyah)
• local short form: ‫ﺍﻟﯿﻤﻦ‬ (Al-Yaman)

• Data code: YM

• Government type: republic

• Capital: Sanaa

• Administrative divisions: 17 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Abyan, 'Adan, Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al Mahwit, 'Ataq, Dhamar, Hadhramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Sa'dah, San'a', Ta'izz

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/i>there may be three new governorates - the capital city of Sanaa, Amran, Dala'a

• Independence: May 22 1990, Republic of Yemen was established with the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic (Sanaa) or North Yemen and the Marxist-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen; previously North Yemen had become independent in November 1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and South Yemen had become independent on 30 November 1967 (from the UK)

• National holiday: Proclamation of the Republic, 22 May (1990)

• Constitution: 16 May 1991; amended 29 September 1994

• Legal system: based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English common law, and local tribal customary law; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

• Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

• Executive branch:
• chief of state: President Lt. Gen. Ali Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990, the former president of North Yemen, assumed office upon the merger of North and South Yemen); Vice President Maj. Gen. Abd al-Rab Mansur al-HADI (since 3 October 1994)
• head of government: Prime Minister Dr. Abd al-Karim Ali al-IRYANI (since NA April 1998)
• cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
• elections: president elected by direct, popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 23 September 1999 (next to be held NA 2004); vice president appointed by the president; prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president
• election results: Ali Abdallah SALIH elected president; percent of vote: Ali Abdallah SALIH 96.3%, Najeeb Qahtan AL-SHAABI 3.7%

• Legislative branch: unicameral House of Representatives (301 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
• elections: last held 27 April 1997 (next to be held NA April 2001)
• election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - GPC 189, Islah 52, Nasserite Unionist Party 3, National Arab Socialist Baath Party 2, independents 54, election pending 1

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/i> in May 1997, the president created a consultative council, sometimes referred to as the upper house of Parliament; its 59 members are all appointed by the president

• Judicial branch: Supreme Court

• Political parties and leaders: there are over 12 political parties active in Yemen, some of the more prominent are: General People's Congress or GPC Ali Abdallah SALIH; Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR; National Arab Socialist Baath Party Qassim SALAAM; Nasserite Unionist Party Malik al-MAKHLAFI; Yemeni Socialist Party or YSP Salih MYQBIL

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/i> President SALIH's General People's Congress or GPC won a landslide victory in the April 1997 legislative election and no longer governs in coalition with Shaykh Abdallah bin Husayn al-AHMAR's Islamic Reform Grouping or Islah - the two parties had been in coalition since the end of the civil war in 1994; the YSP, a loyal opposition party, boycotted the April 1997 legislative election

• International organization participation: ACC, AFESD, AL, AMF, CAEU, CCC, ESCWA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO (applicant)

• Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; similar to the flag of Syria which has two green stars and of Iraq which has three green stars (plus an Arabic inscription) in a horizontal line centered in the white band; also similar to the flag of Egypt which has a heraldic eagle centered in the white band

 

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