The stalemate in the north and south... Is the "presidential" following in the footsteps of "Hadi"?
English - Saturday 12 November 2022 الساعة 08:33 am
Mocha, NewsYemen, private:
If the defect is in the head, where is the health?” With this phrase, a member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Dr. Nasser Al-Khubaji, summarizes the causes of stagnation and weakness in the political and military scene in the liberated areas, in contrast to the escalation and threats from the Houthi terrorist group
Al-Khubaji's talk came in a lengthy interview conducted with him by the "Independent Aden" channel, which is affiliated with the Transitional Council. Reflecting the level of crisis experienced by the Presidential Leadership Council as a result of the obstruction of components and forces within the framework of the Council to carry out the tasks for which the Council was formed as an alternative to the former head of legitimacy represented by Hadi and his deputy, Ali Mohsen.
At the top of these tasks, as the leader of the Transitional Council says, is the speed of implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, which this week completed its third year, without implementing most of its provisions, primarily the military and security aspect by removing the military forces from Wadi Hadramawt and Al-Mahra to the fighting fronts and appointing governors and security managers for the southern governorates. The leadership council is responsible for procrastinating in implementing this.
Al-Khubaji stressed the Brotherhood’s continued obstruction and failure of all efforts of the Presidential Council in resolving the files and carrying out the tasks. He also launched a scathing attack against the Prime Minister, accusing him of obstructing the implementation of some provisions of the Riyadh Agreement, including the reformation of the state’s oversight bodies such as the Central Organization for Control and Accountability and the Supreme Anti-Corruption Authority.
Al-Khubaji’s speech in the one-hour dialogue represented a dangerous indication of the extent of the southern leaders’ resentment over the continued stalemate in the performance of the Presidential Leadership Council, to the point of explicitly threatening “alternative options” for the transitional, including a return to the idea of “self-management,” which he said Al-Khubaji said that it succeeded in pressuring the legitimacy to proceed with the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement and the formation of the government in 2020.
The transitional’s apparent discomfort with the stalemate in the situation in the south comes despite the dangerous escalation practiced by the Houthi terrorist group since it foiled efforts to implement the armistice in early October, and was embodied in its attack on the oil port of Al-Daba in Hadhramaut Governorate, which led to a halt in the process of exporting and producing oil from the liberated governorates completely.
On Monday evening, 4 civilians, including two children, were killed, and 8 others were wounded as a result of an attack launched by the Houthi group on the city of Marib, which led to successive explosions in a warehouse of government forces in the Third Military Region on houses in the Al-Jufaina camp for the displaced and neighborhoods in the city, in a new escalation by the group.
An escalation that reflects - as observers see - the Houthi group's clear tendency to resume the war in Yemen in implementation of the wishes of the Iranian regime, which seeks to stir up the situation in the region to escape its failure to suppress the popular protests that have been going on in the country's cities for nearly two months.
What increases the risk of this Houthi escalation against the liberated governorates is the scene of stagnation on the part of the Presidential Command Council and its apparent failure to confront this escalation through the rapid normalization of the situation in the liberated governorates and the rearrangement of the status of the military fronts in the north, which may represent a state of despair from the council’s transformation into a duplicate of Hadi's previous system.
