Legitimacy is an idol that is eaten by Hadi and Islah .. and the Houthis benefits... This is how they overthrow pluralism and disrupt political action
English - Thursday 01 April 2021 الساعة 10:02 am
Mokha, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The arrival of President Hadi to the presidency as a consensual option imposed by the outside represented a revolutionary shift in the course of political action in Yemen, as Hadi invested the international support he obtained to reduce the scene to only two groups: the first is the Islah party and the leaders of the joint parties. And the second party, Ali Abdullah Saleh and the leaders of the General People's Congress standing next to him
Saleh and those with him classed Hadi as opponents and began to attract conference leaders to his side, thus corrupting political work in the country and turning it into an administration of power by him and his team who are led by reform. Previous stages.
Hadi and his team ruled and reformed them with authority and its decision, while the mere objection to them by the other party represented by Saleh and the conference was classified as disrupting the political process and transferring power to raise the voice of the outside and the region in support of this totalitarian discourse.
And when the Houthis invaded Sanaa, Hadi had worked with them for an important period and tried to co-opt them to form an alternative to Saleh's Congress party, as well as to blackmail them with Islah whenever the need arises.
This period formed the infrastructure for Hadi's vision in dealing with political action, as he continued his exclusionary approach and monopolizing legitimacy in those who move in his orbit, while every voice that departed from this team led by Hadi becomes subject to accusation, skepticism, and possibly penalties as well.
Hadi was singled out for the military decision, along with General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and the Islah party. The vote of the constitutional legitimacy institutions ended with the announcement of the decision to remove Khaled Bahah from the position of Vice President of the Republic and the failure to activate the role of Parliament, which Hadi considers as contesting his powers under the Gulf initiative, which is one of the references in the preamble to the presidential decision to date .
On the other hand, political action was reduced to a small group surrounding Hadi and with them the Islah Party and the State Administration was granted to the presidential office and a decorative role for the foreign minister and committees for dialogue with the Houthi militia when the need arises.
Hadi restricted the secretaries of all parties to a consultative body for him as the president of the republic, with the exception of the Secretary General of Nasiri, who had won the position before him, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the former Secretary-General Abdul-Malik Al-Mikhlafi, as well as the former Secretary General Sultan Al-Atwani.
Hadi has referred political action leaders to employees with formal advisory tasks within the containment policy that he exercises, while political action figures and elites outside Hadi's circle are dealt with as forces hostile to legitimacy, and any activity they have is against legitimacy.
Hadi and his team and Al-Islah monopolized the representation of legitimacy, and in return all the forces and components must owe allegiance to Hadi and his deputy, Ali Mohsen, if they want to leave the circle of classification as anti-legitimacy, while recognition of legitimacy from the point of view of Hadi and his team means shrinking inside Hadi's robes and abandoning any activity or objection to the performance .
What Hadi does as a party monopolizing the representation of legitimacy is matched by the Houthis in Sana'a by nationalizing any political action or activity that creates a voice or discourse that differs from their totalitarian logic, practicing and claiming the right to manage power and war together and without them, marginal forces that forcibly bless this exclusivity and exclusion of others.
With this vision, Hadi accomplished a lot of failure, militarily and politically, and even in terms of the performance of state functions that are affected by the corruption of its leaders and their abuse of the public scene politically and militarily.
Legitimacy is the opposite of the coup and the Houthi militia, and every component or faction facing the Houthi militia is on the side of national and constitutional legitimacy, and it is illogical to monopolize access to legitimacy through a recipe or acceptance from Hadi because Hadi came as a consensual president for all political forces and his survival was imposed by the developments of the war and the coup and not his legitimacy as president Elected.
Is accepting successive defeats in Marib and Al-Jawf and submitting to the outcomes of the Hadi coalition and Islah is legitimacy? Is stopping the liberation of Hodeidah by ratifying a deadly agreement and at a pivotal moment in the life of the battle and protecting the Houthis from defeat by this agreement is legitimacy?
The percentage of those who are framed within the Hadi and Islah coalition does not equal 30% of the total components and active forces in the country, and the continuation of this dependence on Hadi’s decision, temperament and tampering, and Islah’s control of legitimacy and its use as a weapon against political opponents and competitors militarily is a continuation in legitimizing defeat, corruption and chaos, and granting the Houthis more military and political gains .
The activities of long-standing political parties, such as the left-wing parties, have retreated to limit their work within the governorate of Taiz, and this activity is still fraught with many dangers, threats and pressures from a political component, the Islah party, that uses legitimacy as a stick against the rest of the parties.
By what right does Islah object in Taiz to the political and media discourse of the Nasserists and Socialists, for example? And by what right does Islah prevent the Congress Party affiliated with Hadi himself from organizing a political event without the legitimacy represented by Hadi moving to impose its decision against this party that confiscates this decision?
Political action was never the preserve of a party or coalition of parties, rather it is a right guaranteed to the constituents, elites, groups, parties and even individuals, and the continuation of the war does not grant any party authoritarianism in the name of legitimacy over the rest of the components or parties. The pyramid is dominating everyone.
Rashad Al-Alimi bargains with the National Alliance parties with operational budgets, which are entitlements to all parties and are not honored by Hadi or Rashad Al-Alimi, but Al-Alimi Rashad and Al-Alimi Abdullah, director of Hadi's office, bargain with the parties with these budgets to issue positions and statements that agree with the vision of Hadi and his team on many issues.
Today the arena is open in front of a vacuum that has contributed to calcifying the performance of legitimacy and not being subjected even to pressures to improve its role and performance. Arayed grabs the right to represent people and adopt their visions and issues.
Outside the circle of legitimacy, the time has also come for the active forces and components to frame themselves within political structures and frameworks to represent tributaries of a raging political alliance that challenges the legitimacy reduced to the Hadi team and Islah, the right to attend and political representation and participate in the making of event and decision.
Everyone must leave the tunnel of helplessness, foreign phobia, and fears of the coalition's anger, because the fate of the homelands is made by courageous decisions and unhesitating assessments, and every day that goes on makes the scene more complicated by plundering Hadi and Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi of the right of Yemenis to decide their fate and their choices.
The time is available to create political momentum that fills the existing void in the Yemeni arena and to reach an alliance of currents that transcend geography and parties, and create a defining moment in the scene that restores balance and ends the imbalance that has existed for nearly a decade when Hadi and the Islah Party began to prevail with their tyrannical alliance.
