The Houthi militia is planning elections in the constituencies of representatives whose membership has been revoked and sentenced to death
English - Sunday 26 September 2021 الساعة 09:10 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
Parliamentary sources in Sana’a revealed to NewsYemen that the Houthi militias, the Iranian arm in Yemen, are making arrangements to hold complementary elections in the parliamentary constituencies whose membership of representatives was dropped by the militia-controlled council in Sana’a, as well as the vacant constituencies due to the death of their deputies.
The sources said that the number of parliamentary constituencies that the militias intend to hold by-elections is about (83) parliamentary constituencies.
In April of this year, the parliament, which is under the control of the militias, dropped the membership of (44) deputies before a court affiliated with the militias issued death sentences against them and confiscation of their property.
While a number of other council members died, some of them outside Yemen and others inside Yemen.
According to parliamentary sources, the High Elections Committee, which is under the control of the militias, has completed the preparation of arrangements for holding the elections and has submitted them to the so-called Supreme Political Council headed by the militia leader Mahdi al-Mashat, and is waiting for him to issue a decision approving the financial budget for holding the elections to announce the call for them.
The Houthi militia had previously held supplementary elections in 24 electoral districts on the fifteenth of April of the year 2019, as these elections did not witness any mass turnout, during which the militias imposed some of their elements as candidates, and some of them even held their elections in areas outside their geographical constituencies. This is the case with the militia leader, Muhammad Ahmed Yahya Al-Junaid, who was elected as a representative of the 33rd district in Taiz governorate, while he was formally elected in the militia-controlled area in Al-Hawban, which is outside his geographical district, while only dozens of people participated in some of the districts in which candidates from Militia elements.
According to the sources, the Houthi militia is seeking to establish a new parliament under its full control and to enable it to use it to pass legal amendments that meet current opposition from the General People's Congress bloc, whose members are still exercising their duties in the Sana'a parliament.
Parliamentary sources described the Houthi militia’s actions, whether against the deputies whose membership has been revoked, or with regard to holding elections in their constituencies as invalid and illegitimate procedures, not only because they took place without a legal quorum to drop membership, but also because they are based on invalid foundations and what is built on falsehood is false.
The sources said that the militias’ practices with regard to the legislative authority, whether the House of Representatives or the Shura Council, will have catastrophic repercussions on the details of any peace process or a possible political settlement. Where it would not be reasonable or logical to accept the consequences of the militia policy that led to the disqualification of parliamentarians, sentencing them to death, and electing replacements for them, as well as appointing members to the Shura Council, which will complicate reaching peaceful solutions.
The remaining members of the House of Representatives, affiliated with the conference and some representatives who announced their joining the Houthi militia after its coup against the authority and its takeover of Sana’a on September 21, 2014, in addition to those who were elected in the by-elections, continue to attend parliament sessions, which has become just another institution that dominates And the militias impose their decisions on them. The militias use it to pass many laws that establish their hegemony over state institutions in an unprecedented way.
