General People's Congress (Yemen)

General People's Congress
المؤتمر الشعبي العام
Chairperson (disputed)Rashad al-Alimi (pro-Hadi faction)[1][2]
Sadeq Amin Abu Rass (pro-Houthi faction)[3][1]
Ahmed Saleh (pro-Ahmed Saleh faction)[1]
SpokespersonAbdo al-Janadi
FounderAli Abdullah Saleh
Founded24 August 1982
HeadquartersSanaa
NewspaperAl-Motamar
IdeologyYemeni nationalism
Arab nationalism
Pan-Arabism
Big tent[4]
Political positionCentre[5]
House of Representatives
168 / 301
Party flag
Website

The General People's Congress (GPC; Arabic: المؤتمر الشعبي العام) is a political party in Yemen. It has been the de jure ruling party of Yemen since 1993, three years after unification. The party is dominated by a nationalist line, and its official ideology is Arab nationalism, seeking Arab unity. In the course of the Yemeni Civil War, the party's founder and leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed, while the GPC fractured into three factions backing different sides in the conflict.[6]

  1. ^ a b c Tawfeek al-Ganad (20 September 2022). "Weak and Divided, the General People's Congress Turns 40". Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies. Sanaa. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. ^ "The General People's Congress in Ma'rib Governorate salutes its leadership, members and supporters on the 40th anniversary of its founding". Al-Methaq News (in Arabic). General People's Congress. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Yemeni party names new leader after Saleh killed". Reuters. 7 January 2018.
  4. ^ Burrowes, Robert D. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 134.
  5. ^ Burrowes, p111
  6. ^ "Death of a leader: Where next for Yemen's GPC after murder of Saleh?". Middle East Eye. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2018.

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