Houthi seeks to drop 100 members of the Shura
English - Wednesday 29 January 2020 الساعة 05:12 pm
Sanaa, Newsyemen
Sources in the Shura Council, which is under the control of the Houthi militias, the Iranian arm in Yemen, said that the militias intend to drop about 100 names from the council’s membership in preparation for replacing them with elements affiliated with them.
The sources added, that the Houthi militia and through the presidential office run by the Houthi leader Ahmed Hamid (Abu Mahfoud) formed a committee that would review the membership of the council, and that the committee managed by Abu Mahfouz recommended excluding and dropping the salaries of about 100 members of the council, noting that these members belong to a bloc The General People's Congress, some of whom are located outside Yemen, and others who are deceased.
According to the sources, among the members whose militias intend to drop their membership and confiscate their salaries are some of those who were martyred in the Great Hall, including the conference leader Muhammad Nasser Al-Amri, and also the head of the legal council that was replaced by the militia Abdul Rahman Muhammad Ali Othman, stressing that these measures sparked disputes between members of the council Belonging to the conference and affiliates of the Houthi militia.
The sources say that the remaining members of the conference’s bloc in the council opposed these measures, as they are a constitutional and legal violation where no party has the right to interfere in the Shura Council or to cancel the membership of any of its members or confiscate his salary, adding that it is a systematic process aimed at excluding the members of the conference and making room for militia leaders to replace their members with a substitute for them as part of their overall control of the Council.
The sources accused the head of the council appointed by the Houthis, Muhammad al-Aidarous, who is affiliated with the conference, of colluding with the militias and keeping silent about the violations they committed, describing him as a Houthi more than the Houthis themselves.
It is worth noting that the Houthi militia has appointed members of it in the Shura Council as part of its purchase of the loyalties of some sheikhs and social figures in exchange for mobilizing and recruiting young people to fight among its militias, to the extent that the strength of the Council exceeded the constitutional ceiling for the number of members decided by 222, where the number of members after the appointments of the militias It exceeds 270 members, which represents a constitutional violation that makes the work of the Council under the falsehood.
