The salary debate deepens the dispute between Al-Houthi and his partners in the Sanaa Conference
English - Sunday 03 September 2023 الساعة 03:58 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen:
The Congress Party's support, the Sana'a wing, for the demands to pay the salaries of employees in areas controlled by the terrorist Houthi militia from the revenues earned by the latter, led to the escalation of disputes between the ruling partners.
The head of the Sanaa Conference, Sadiq Abu Ras, said: “Employees have the right to demand that the coup government pay salaries, as it is a de facto authority.” He suggested, in a speech on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the founding of the party, that the militias must deliver post-dated checks to every employee deprived of their salary as a commitment on their part, once funds are available, to pay them all their salaries without any decrease.
Abu Ras was supposed to assume the presidency of the so-called ruling political council in Sanaa under the partnership agreement years ago, but the militias each time extended the campaign and apparently forced Abu Ras to agree.
In his speech, Abu Ras called on the militia government to be transparent, and to provide a detailed explanation to the Yemenis about the budgets and amounts of money that were spent, and how they were spent, before he accused the militias of depriving the Yemenis in areas under their control of the most basic services.
Abu Ras’s speech aroused the ire and anger of the Houthi militias, which view talking about the state’s resources that they seize as a red line that is prohibited from being discussed. Therefore, they launched a campaign of criticism against these statements, amounting to an indirect threat of liquidation.
The head of the so-called Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, attacked Abu Ras, and claimed that the reason behind the government’s refusal to submit the budget to Parliament was what happened in 2019 when it was leaked to the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee, forgetting that the goal of submitting it to Parliament was to announce it to public opinion and society.
Al-Mashat’s justifications also confirm the militias’ fear that society will know the true size of the revenues collected annually, which means a popular revolution, especially in light of the non-payment of salaries for more than eight years.
