Newspaper: Major changes topple "Ali Mohsen" and "Al-Maqdishi"
English - Tuesday 01 September 2020 الساعة 05:10 pm
Aden, Newsyemen:
The London-based Al-Arab newspaper, citing Yemeni political sources, said that imminent decisions will be issued by interim President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, including the dismissal of a number of officials responsible for managing the military file in the Yemeni government.
The newspaper indicated that these decisions will affect Vice President Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, the first responsible for the military file since the outbreak of the war in March 2015, as one or two consensual deputies will be appointed instead of Al-Ahmar, who is usually accused of being directly responsible for the failure in managing the file and the fall of governorates and military regions in the hands of the Houthi militia.
They pointed out that the current Minister of Defense, Muhammad Ali al-Maqdishi, will be dismissed, and Chief of General Staff Saghir bin Aziz will be appointed to replace him.
Al-Arab said that the forthcoming decisions regarding the "legitimacy" come in the context of comprehensive reviews conducted by the Arab coalition on the reasons for the faltering military track in recent years, and a conclusion was reached on the necessity of making comprehensive changes to the leaders responsible for this failure on both sides of the coalition and legitimacy, which is what Resulted.
The Newspapers added that the coming period will witness a qualitative shift in the way the military file is managed, whether by the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, or within the new government that will be formed according to the Riyadh agreement signed between the "legitimacy" and the transitional council, as this will be accompanied by the conduct of wide change processes in the joints of the military establishment.
This leads to the reduction of the Brotherhood’s hegemony over this file, in light of indications of the complicity of Yemeni military leaders with the Qatari project in Yemen, which seeks to hand over the northern governorates to the Houthis and transfer the conflict to the liberated areas in southern Yemen.
It considered that these developments at the military level come with parallel developments at the political level, which may be reflected in the way the coalition leadership dealt with the excesses of Yemeni components that worked during the previous period to confuse the battle from within the legitimate institutions and ignite the conflict within the camp opposing the Iranian and Qatari project in Yemen.
According to the newspaper, it is likely that the symbols of what is known as the Doha movement in the Yemeni government during the next stage will lose a lot of the papers of blackmail and pressure that they were practicing, after their tools were reduced in the battle with the Houthis and this movement lost its strength factors, after losing its areas of influence such as Al-Jawf and Nehm to the Houthis.
