Returning to Ma’ashiq again.. “Presidential Council”: A political victory over Iran’s arm and an arrangement of priorities
English - Tuesday 11 October 2022 الساعة 06:58 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, private:
On the semi-annual anniversary of his formation, Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi chaired a meeting of all the legitimate bodies in the presence of members of the Leadership Council in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in preparation for returning to “Ma’asheq” within days within the agenda of a new phase of negotiations with the Iranian arm after the end of the humanitarian truce, and in the context of arrangements Various concerns the liberated areas and the battle fronts with the Houthis.
The Council.. Restoring respect for legitimacy
Since the first day of its formation, the Leadership Council has managed to achieve the first and most important victory, which is to restore the moral status of “Yemeni legitimacy” locally, regionally and internationally, after years during which it was devastated by failure and conflict and the control of one political party over the legitimacy, and it preserved all its interests despite all the losses it caused to this legitimacy.
On Friday, the Leadership Council closed a half-year march, the second gain of which was the political victory over Iran's Houthi arm in Yemen, where the Iranian arm's lies about its willingness for peace fell and the world regained its clear language about the identity of the real "aggressor" against the interests of Yemenis, during the past week. International statements were united in defining al-Houthi as an aggressive party gambling with the interests of Yemenis and not expressing their interests and opinions, and that he set impossible and unacceptable conditions after which he refused to extend the armistice, sacrificing the humanitarian benefits achieved for Yemenis.
Contrary to the unified international position on the Yemeni issue, the Presidential Command Council succeeded in missing the opportunity for the Houthi militias in front of the Yemeni interior and gaining the confidence of civilians residing in the governorates under force under the control of Iran’s arms, by making concessions after another in the humanitarian file, and exporting the salary issue to the forefront Confidence-building measures, as a pledge made by the Speaker of the Council, Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi, before Parliament in the city of Aden, in mid-April.
Given the complications that accompanied the past months and the internal differences that stood in the way of achieving the desired success, the Presidential Command Council will have to deal during the coming period with many postponed files and address the benefits in all economic, military and security fields.
Reorder priorities
Since the first days of the announcement of the transfer of power on the seventh of last April, the Presidential Leadership Council found itself a target of the arrows of a Brotherhood media machine, which harnessed all its capabilities to dismantle national consensus and sow discord between the leader and members of the Leadership Council.
Despite the counter-campaigns that almost wrecked the consensus and partnership on which the Leadership Council is based, especially after the recent Shabwa events, the wisdom demonstrated by the President of the Presidential Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, and with him the Presidency of Consultation and Reconciliation, was credited with containing the crisis.
Since the end of last September, the Consultation Committee headed by Muhammad Al-Ghaithi succeeded in removing many discrepancies and moving stagnant waters within the Presidential Council, after a series of announced and undeclared meetings it had with the president and members of the Council, as well as meetings with diplomats and international observers.
The discussions held by the Chairman of the Consultation Committee and his four deputies concluded the need to expedite the completion and approval of the draft rules regulating the work of the Presidential Leadership Council and the Consultation Body, which were prepared by the legal committee formed under the declaration of the transfer of power.
Contrary to the efforts made by the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission, the arrogance recently shown by the Houthi militias and the terrorist threats they launched after refusing to extend the truce contributed to an awakening within the corridors of the Presidential Council, which quickly forgot its internal differences, and came out with a unified position stressing the need to achieve one goal which is Ending the coup and restoring state institutions from Iran's arms in Yemen.
The Leadership Council looks at the next stage with much optimism, and in contrast to the Saudi oil grant for the power stations of the liberated areas that was recently signed with a value of $200 million, the Presidential Council hopes to return with the government to the temporary capital, Aden, with the financial deposit provided by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to the Central Bank. In order to meet the economic benefits and launch the wheel of development in the various liberated governorates.
Sources confirmed to NewsYemen that the Leadership Council will, in the coming days, begin translating many corrective plans that have been prepared by experts and specialists over the past months, in various state agencies.
The plans are based on reducing imbalances in the performance of state institutions, fighting corruption, and developing oil and non-oil revenues, by activating the work of the Higher Committee for Resources headed by Maj. Gen. Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, a member of the Council.
The Leadership Council will also continue to proceed with the reforms it launched during the past months, by reactivating all state institutions, especially the supervisory authorities such as the Central Organization for Control and Accountability and the Anti-Corruption Authority, after its success in restoring life to the courts after a year and a half of stumbling.
Away from the temporary capital of Aden, which receives the lion's share of the attention of the Presidential Council, it is expected that the wheel of development will move towards other liberated governorates that are still deprived of the most basic services, namely Al-Dhalea, Lahj, Taiz and Abyan.
