Since its establishment on September 13, 1990 until today, the Yemeni Islah Party has been able to play significant roles in rationalizing the political life in Yemen despite the storms and political and security turmoil that has witnessed the country since then, the accompanying civil wars and tearing the social fabric of the people of the one country.
The Islah Party was distinguished from other major Yemeni parties in that its establishment coincided with the re-establishment of the Yemeni unity in 1990, as well as coincided with the beginning of the emergence of pluralistic political and partisan democracy in the country. This means that the party was founded in a pluralistic democratic environment, unlike most of the Arab parties that were founded in a totalitarian atmosphere and as ruling parties that consider partisan action or the establishment of opposition parties is a criminal act.
The Islah Party did not acquire the capacity of a northern party or a southern party, because it was founded immediately after the re-achievement of the national unity as well as some of the founders of the party are from the north of the country and the others from the south. The party emerged as a national party representing an extension of the Yemeni reform and renewal movement, which played a major role in the various stages of the national struggle against the corrupt Imamate regime and against the foreign invaders. All this has made the party achieve popularity and rapid presence since its establishment in the various cities and villages of Yemen.

- Rationalizing the democratic path
Perhaps the most important achievement of the Islah Party throughout its political career is that it has been able to contribute effectively in rationalizing the democratic path in the country despite the low political culture among the Yemeni society, in which illiteracy of writing and reading and political illiteracy are widespread on a large scale. The Party has adopted the principle of peaceful struggle as a modern and civilized means of obtaining rights and freedoms since it was a partner in power with limited percentage and until it became an opposition party within a broad bloc comprising the main Yemeni opposition parties (JMPs).
The Islah Party was one of the most regular political parties in holding its General Conferences. It was also the most active in spreading and establishing a culture of peaceful struggle in popular circles against corruption and the failure of the ruling regime in improving the living conditions of citizens. The media of the Islah and its representatives in the parliament were able to expose corruption and the failure of the ruling regime before the public opinion.
In addition, the Islah Party's practice of the role of the custodian of the emerging democracy in the country by exposing the regime's practices of rigging elections, buying votes and turning democracy into mere cover for its corruption and misdeeds, as well as taking democracy as a means of bringing aid from international governments and organizations interested supporting and spread democracy in third world countries.
After the outbreak of six rounds of wars in Saada between 2004 and 2010, which were taken as means by the late President Ali Saleh to achieve special goals, as well as the outbreak of violent protest movement in the south of the homeland, which began with demands of rights and ended with the call for secession, the Islah Party was working to rationalize the movement of popular protests within its peaceful framework. The Islah Party - with the rest of the JMPs - launched festivals under the title "Our summer is a struggle" in 2007 through demonstrations and sit-ins demanding the regime to carry out broad political and economic reforms after the collapse of the living conditions of citizens to unprecedented levels and increasing unemployment rate. And the failure of the late President Ali Saleh in the implementation of his electoral program that promised in the presidential elections in September 2006.
It can be said that without the adoption of the Islah Party - with the JMP - the citizens' protests and the concentration on to be peaceful and civilized, the spark of popular anger would have reached dangerous levels. The peaceful struggle continued to be associated with the popular protest movement until the situation reached a peaceful popular revolution against the regime in February 2011. This revolution coincided with the revolutions of the Arab Spring. At that time, the Islah Party called on its supporters to join the peaceful popular revolution launched by university students and the unemployed. The party's call for its supporters to join the revolution was motivated by the protection of democracy on which turned against by the late President Ali Saleh through his two drafts of bequeathal and immortalization.

- Strengthening the role of the State
The Islah Party has been working to strengthen the role of the State, especially when the State is in its worst stages of weakness, and this was because of its strong belief in the importance of the role of the State in collecting the diaspora of the Yemeni society and preserving the national unity and social fabric of the people of one country. The Party also made great sacrifices after the State was exposed to the danger of the Houthi militias supported by Iran, and devoted all its efforts to support the legitimate authority in its war against the coup with the support of the Arab coalition countries.
Within the political literature of the Islah Party, that the Party positions on foreign issues and relations with other countries should not be contrary to the foreign policy of the State. This reflects the extent to which the Party strengthens the role of the State, supports it in all circumstances and elevates the role of the State and its role towards its citizens and the rest of the political and social parties and forces, so that it becomes a political culture that affects the behavior of different groups in dealing with the State.

- Immunity against sectarianism and regionalism
At the time as the rise of the trans countries sectarian identities, and the emergence of regional identities that break up the countries, the Islah Party is considered the largest Yemeni Party with a national identity and with an Islamic reference and moderate religious and political thought that exceed sectarian and regional identities, and maybe this is what made the Party gaining a public presence in different Yemeni cities and villages.

Perhaps this characteristic of the Islah Party that has made sectarian, racial and regional groups excessively antagonize it, at the forefront of this group is the Houthi group, which is angered by the fact that the Islah Party was able to expand and spread significantly in areas that are considered semi-closed to the Zaydi sect. Through its moderate ideology and balanced political and media discourse, the Party managed to attract a large number of followers of the Zaydi sect who left sectarian fanaticism and joined the party with self-initiative and intellectual convictions.
For this reason, the Houthi group has preceded its coup against the legitimate authority by blowing up a large number of mosques and Koranic schools which adopted the moderated Islamic ideology against extremism as a retaliatory step, because these mosques and Koranic schools were working to dry up the sources of the thought of the extremist sectarian ideology, from which the Houthi group feeds.
It can be said that the public presence of the Islah Party in various Yemeni cities and villages constitutes immunity for the country against sectarian, regional and other non-national identities as well as pre-State identities. This would rationalize the political life of the country, and if it is established, it constitutes immunity for the State, society and neighboring countries from the danger of sectarianism, regionalism and tribalism.

- Variable alliances
From its establishment until today, the variable political alliances of the Islah Party constituted the most important means of the party to rationalize the political life of the country, where it made its alliances subject to the interest of the homeland and with the national interest, and their variable alliances reflects the party's flexibility and the its moderated approach.
At the beginning of its establishment, the Islah Party allied with the General People's Congress Party and the regime of late President Ali Abdullah Saleh in order to strengthen the democratic political process. And after the other party committed a breach of the requirements of the alliance, committed a breach of its duty towards the people, the phenomenon of financial and administrative corruption increased, the living conditions of citizens have deteriorated and Saleh's regime has turned towards bequeathal, the Islah Party announced the end of its alliance with the GPC, turned into an opposition party and formed with the rest of the main opposition parties a political alliance known as the JMPs.
After the coup against the legitimate authority by the Houthi group and the late President Ali Saleh, the Islah Party returned to the alliance with the legitimate authority against the coup, and the General People's Congress Party (President Abed Rabbo Hadi's wing) is one of its main components.
It is clear from the above that the political biography of the Islah Party showed it as a national Party that transcends the sectarian, regional and tribal identities, and that it stands as a stumbling stone
in front of the projects of fragmentation and tearing up of the State, and a stumbling stone in front of family and racist projects. It works to strengthen and enhance the State's role and status and it enjoys a political flexibility and a moderate religious thought enabled it to gain popularity in various Yemeni cities and villages. Today, the Party is active within a multi-layered coalition and supports the legitimate authority in its war against the coup, with the support of the Arab coalition countries led by Saudi Arabia.