Newspaper: The transitional council's procedures “squeeze” legitimacy in the corner of implementing the Riyadh agreement
English - Wednesday 29 April 2020 الساعة 11:01 pm
Aden, Newsyemen:
The London Arab newspaper said, on Tuesday, that the announcement of the Southern Transitional Council of self-management of the southern governorates, ended the fraudulent agreement between the components of the Yemeni “legitimacy”, and put the government and the forces controlling it, especially the Brotherhood Islah Party, before a serious test to implement the Riyadh agreement, and take responsibility for political and military developments in case of failure.
The newspaper quoted the spokesperson for the council, Nizar Haitham, as saying, that the regional and international reactions to the recent transitional council measures that included declaring a state of emergency and subjecting the southern provinces to self-administration, as a strong blow to the Muslim Brotherhood and all parties that sought to portray the southern transitional council's decision as a coup.
Commenting on the statement issued by the Arab Coalition, Haitham said that the Transitional Council appreciates the efforts of the coalition, and supports their continuous call for the return of the two main signatories to the Riyadh Agreement to the negotiating table, stressing that the decision of the Council to declare a state of emergency and assume self-management came as a result of great care to eliminate suffering of the oppressed people of the South.
The transitional spokesman affirmed the council’s positive engagement with all peaceful initiatives and the calls of the Arab coalition, as well as the international envoy to find a comprehensive political solution that guarantees the south’s right to political participation, while the “legitimacy” of deliberately stalling the implementation of the terms of the agreement and refusing to form a government of competencies in par with the continuation of media fanaticism and military mobilization against the south and delivered north to Houthi.
On Saturday night / Sunday, the council declared "the self-administration of the south", accusing the government of "continuing to be intransigent in carrying out its duties" in addition to "delaying it and evading the implementation of the related Riyadh agreement."
According to "Al-Arab", the developments of Aden, especially the southerners' adherence to imposing the option of self-management to stop belittling the Riyadh agreement, will highlight the influence of foreign agendas within the Yemeni government and its role in sabotaging various understandings.
Yemeni observers and researchers suggested that the recent escalation in the Yemeni scene would lead to besieging the parties obstructing the Riyadh Agreement, and increasing regional and international pressure to start implementing it, especially on the side of the legitimate government.
The newspaper quoted Yemeni researcher and political analyst Mansour Saleh as saying that the reaction to the measures taken by the Transitional Council was positive, and strengthened the demands of the southern street, which welcomed these measures and considered that they are going in the framework of achieving its goals, even if they were late.
Saleh pointed out that the recent transitional council measures represented a sense of the suffering of the people and the deterioration of their lives in light of corruption and the absence of "the government", noting that the transitional council had received wide support statements from various popular sectors, civil and military institutions, unions, professional and creative organizations in addition to the military and security establishment, all of which blessed these steps.
Saleh said that legitimacy is in a difficult situation militarily and popularly, and has nothing but international recognition of it, and its ability is to confuse the papers politically by benefiting from international support for it, a support that began to fade and decline significantly, and for the south, specifically the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan and Socotra.
Legitimacy possesses nothing but media hype, or the pushing of terrorist or chaotic cells to disrupt as it is done to target the electric service in order to create trouble for people and push them out against the council, otherwise it has nothing.
