Al-Houthi demands the Presidential Council to pay the salaries of its fighters in exchange for extending the truce

English - Tuesday 04 October 2022 الساعة 09:45 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:

 Tweets by Houthi leaders revealed the reasons for refusing to extend the truce, according to the new proposal submitted by the UN envoy, despite the fact that it included its conditions by adding a clause to pay salaries in their areas of control.

These leaders indicated, through their tweets, the group’s rejection of what was included in the proposal to limit the payment of salaries to civil servants in their areas of control, according to the 2014 statements.

Al-Houthi leaders admitted that they demanded that the payment include the salaries of military and security personnel in their areas of control according to the 2014 statements as a first stage only, provided that the matter later includes those they hired in state institutions and those they recruited in the ranks of their militias.

Where the Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Ajri said that his group demanded equality between Yemeni employees in all governorates of the republic, civilian and military,” wondering: In what law and by what right do you want us to agree to deprive the policeman, traffic man and security man in the non-occupied governorates (in reference to their areas of control) of their right to a salary.

While the Houthi leader, Hussein Al-Ezzi, revealed that the leader of the group agreed to the proposal to disburse the salaries of employees according to the 2014 statements, “as a start only,” he said, explaining that this approval came despite the fact that “most of the revolutionaries are not among these statements,” referring to those the militias hired during past years.

Al-Ezzi attacked the group’s rejection of the group’s request that the military and security exchanges in the 2014 statements include fighters in the group’s ranks, promising to say: Raise your hands quickly before we say all the statements at once.

These statements provoked widespread ridicule by activists and followers on social media at the audacity of the Houthi group to require the Presidential Council to pay salaries to its militias in exchange for their fight against it.