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Yemeni Islah Party.. Guard of values of the Republic, constancy of the state, and terms of politics

الإثنين 16 يناير-كانون الثاني 2023 الساعة 07 مساءً / alislah-ye.net

  

By: Abdullah al-Munifi

One of the most distinguished political occasions after the achievement of Yemeni unity was the emergence of the Yemeni Islah Party on the political scene because it was an exceptional political party being announced on Yemeni soil. However, it was not suddenly born with that moment that came as a culmination of the efforts of the Yemeni reform movement that were initiated by the first pioneers.

According to the declaration issued by it on the twenty-sixth anniversary of its founding, it is "a political party with Yemeni roots and origins, which constitutes an intellectual and behavioral extension of the historic Yemeni reform movement throughout Yemen."

According to Article (1) of Chapter One of Part One of the party’s statute, this party is a popular political organization that seeks reform in all aspects of life on the basis of the principles and provisions of Islam and uses all legitimate means to achieve its goals.

In one of its general conferences at the end of the last millennium, the Assistant Secretary of the General People's Congress, Dr. Abd al-Malik Mansour describes the Islah Party in his speech as a "party that was born giant," and this is because the Islah Party combined elitism and populism, and included in its ranks all groups, segments, and sectors of the Yemeni people, based on the values and principles of the Yemeni people and their national and creed constants, in line with these values and principles, and is present in all Yemeni regions.

At a time when patriotic concern was a priority for the Islah Party since the announcement of its founding on September 13, 1990, the Party persisted in its institutional construction and the consolidation of democratic political action within its frameworks, which was reflected in the regular convening of its general conferences, the continuous renewal of its leadership, the expansion of the base of popular participation and the giving of women a greater role in political and public action.

Despite all this, the Islah Party has always been keen to build political alliances and extend its hand to the various political action partners on the national scene, and these alliances have reached their climax with the formation of the Joint Meeting Parties bloc.

Preserving principles and guarding constants:

 

The values of revolution, republic, unity, and democracy have been the most prominent values in the literature of the Party since its foundation, and these values were present in the speeches of its leaders and cadres in various occasions. For more than three decades, the Islah Party has been representing the national entity that has its roots in Yemeni soil and the difficult figure in the political equation, carrying the issues of the homeland and the people, biasing with the masses, until it has possessed a large stock of national action throughout the Yemeni arena, aware that the reality of the homeland and foreseeing future prospects.

The Yemeni Islah Party has continued to carry the banner of the Republic and the values of the September Revolution, with the leading role in confronting the priestly dynasty represented by the racist Imami thought. It warned of the remnants of the Imamate because the goals, principles, and values of the September 26 revolution were and still are forming the solid foundation of the reformist national thought, which sees the mother revolution of Yemen as the most prominent achievement in the history of Yemen, and that the goals of the revolution, its struggling symbols, and its martyrs, who sacrificed in order to restore freedom and dignity of the Yemeni people, are the glory of the Yemeni people and the guide to their path to the future.

In order to clarify this, the political program of the Yemeni Islah Party has identified two central goals; the first is: Cultural reform: By constructing community awareness, and the second is: Political reform: By constructing the state in accordance with the constitution and the law, which are the foundation of the republic.

Today, the Yemeni Islah Party believes that constructing a republican, federal, democratic Yemen, based on its national Arab-Islamic identity, is the responsibility of all Yemeni patriotic forces and the duty of fulfilling to the history of the fighters and martyrs of the Yemeni patriotic movement.

The Islah Party remained steadfast in its positions and principles on which it was founded, which gave it its national weight, and in return, the Islah Party was more flexible in political issues, and this made the Houthi terrorist militia to consider the Islah Party its most prominent enemy from the first moment, which it saw In the Islah Party, the main obstacle to achieving its racist priesthood project. So, it had no choice but to target the party, its headquarters, leaders, and cadres. Muhammad Qahtan, a member of the Supreme Authority of the Yemeni Islah Party, has been hidden since April 2015, and many of the Party's activists, cadres, and media professionals have been abducted for years. This militia has targeted institutions, homes and private property, and this behavior confirms that the Islah Party is the rock on which the illusions of the racist Imamate were shattered, which has become a tool in the hands of the Persian project hostile to the Arab and Islamic nations.

Struggle to restore and construct the state:

 

Throughout its political career, the Yemeni Islah Party was only with the state in its broadest sense, even when it was among the parties opposing the ruling authority because the concept of the state for the Islah Party is clear. The state is the one that accommodates all Yemeni parties and segments for coexistence without any group dominating the other. This is the state of institutions that serve Yemeni human beings in accordance with the precept of Shura, free popular election, consolidation of political pluralism, and the principle of peaceful transfer of power. With this thought rooted in the concept of the state, the Islah Party has become one of the most important patriotic pillars.

Last May 22, on the occasion of the 32nd National Day for achieving unity, the Presidential Leadership Council gathered in the interim capital, Aden. And on the occasion of this anniversary, the Islah Party considered - through the deputy head of its Information Department, Adnan al-Audayni - that this year's anniversary of unity came with a special and different impact from its predecessors since the coup in 2014, which came as a result of national political events aimed at unifying the Republican national ranks resisting the coup as a necessary treatment for the discrepancy that was reflected in the overall performance, specifically in the battle to restore the Yemeni state, and he found it an opportunity to call on all political forces to transcend the past and strive towards constructing a real state for Yemenis, a state that guarantees all of them their living rights and guarantees their political freedoms.

 

This position comes in line with the thought and concept of constructing the state in which the Islah Party believes, and this position was clear in its statements, literature, declarations of its leaders, and its practical positions at various stages, the most important of which was its discussion paper presented to the Comprehensive National Dialogue Conference related to its vision of the form of the state, which achieves decentralization in the form that suits Yemen and its people, "a civil state with a republican system that achieves the goals of the Yemeni revolution in a way that preserves the unity, sovereignty, security, and stability of Yemen, and that it guarantees the principle of election as a basis for forming the leaders of decentralized government and achieves the principles of equal citizenship and national partnership in power and wealth."

All of the above were not just visions and theories, but the Islah Party was the most prominent Yemeni party and component, which sided with the state with all its human and material capabilities when it was attacked by the racist priestly danger represented by the terrorist Houthi militia, where the clear position of the Islah Party was evident from the beginning, which is the position rejecting a coup against the state, legitimacy and national will. The Islah Party has made great sacrifices to restore the state and end the coup, and has repeatedly emphasized the importance of unity and joint national action to achieve this goal, which the political forces have repeatedly emphasized in the context of their congratulations to the Islah Party on the anniversary of its founding, and also emphasized the Islah Party's fulfillment to the higher interests of the Yemeni people and their national gains, foremost of which is the identity of the people, its constants, republicanism, unity, and siding with the national consensus.

In order to emphasize the concept of the state, the deputy head of the Information and Culture Department of the Yemeni Islah Party, Adnan al-Audayni, presented last May a paper in which he summarized the party's vision of the concept of the state, the factors that contributed to the Party's maturity, the Islah Party's differentiating between the state and power, defining the necessary conditions the Yemeni state and achieve its existence and stability.

According to al-Audayni, the Islah Party’s vision of the state was determined according to two basic conditions, the first: Keeping sovereign institutions away from political competition and liberating them from the control of rulers and authoritarian forces, and the second: That the opposition not tend to fragment society into its elementary elements, which it has often resorted to as a result of barricading the power behind sovereign institutions.

 

The condition of politics and the entrenchment of democracy:

 

The Yemeni Islah Party worked to make the democratic experience that arose with Yemeni unity a success, during which it entered the arena of pluralistic political action with a responsible national spirit since the first peaceful, civilized opposition it adopted, and it entered many presidential, parliamentary, and local elections.

Despite the distortions that accompanied this experience, the Islah Party tried hard to work to enhance this experience, consolidate democratic action, a peaceful transfer of power, and preserve the gains along with activities and efforts to enrich political and national action in Yemen through national political alliances at various stages, and emphasize the promoting the values of citizenship, justice, equality and acceptance of the other, reaching to lead the stage of peaceful struggle to obtain rights and freedoms.

The Islah Party has reached every region and home in Yemen with the tools of peaceful political action stipulated in the constitution and the law and moved between power and opposition through the ballot box.

And when the dark Imamate crowds returned, they began directing their arrows toward the democratic political process - which is the opposite of the racist priestly Imamate - and because the Islah Party is a condition of politics and national partnership, it was the first target for the remnants of the reactionary Imamate, which swept away political life and eliminated peaceful options.

During his speech last March, at the conference of the Chinese Communist Party, the deputy head of the parliamentary bloc of the Yemeni Islah Party and head of the Hadhramaut Islah Party, Eng. Mohsen Basura explained that extremist groups and militias are working to scrape political life, cancel peaceful and safe options, and disrupt democracy that reflects the popular will, and this is what happened and is still happening in Yemen since the coup of the Houthi militia against the state and the popular will, referring to the coup of the Houthi militia, which replaced the tools of violence and the militia's weapons in the place of peaceful tools and democratic choice. Militias practice all forms of terrorism against the local, regional and international communities.

Last September, as the Islah Party celebrated its 32nd anniversary, Dr. Adel al Shujaa, a member of the General Committee of the General People's Congress, expressed his fears that the democratic project is dying in Yemen, stressing that the presence of the Islah Party is a condition for the establishment of democracy and the continuation of constructive political pluralism.

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