General People's Congress (Yemen)

The General People's Congress (Arabic المؤتمر الشعبي العام al -Mu ʾ tamar al- damage ʿ Bī l - ʿ Amm, DMG al -mu ʾ tamar aš - ša ʿ Bī l - ʿ Amm, English General People's Congress, abbreviated MSA, GPC or AVK ) is a political party in the Republic of Yemen. It is the ruling party and currently dominates the country's political system.

The party is dominated authoritarian and nationalistic. Their official ideology of Arab nationalism, Arab unity, the way you desire. Founder of the party was the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

History

The General People's Congress was the former single party in the Yemen Arab Republic in North Yemen. She dominated the party system there until reunification with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in southern Yemen in the year 1990. 1993 the party joined in a democratic election for the first time. She won the elections and formed a coalition with the Yemeni Association for Reform ( Islah ). Also in the parliamentary elections of April 1997, the General People's Congress won an absolute majority with 187 seats and was able this time to govern without the Islah.

In February 2001, the State party was able to strengthen their power with a hedged by a third constitutional reform referendum. In June 2006, the party leader Ali Abdullah Saleh announced to compete again as a presidential candidate of his party after in - organized by his party - it was called for mass demonstrations. In the last national elections of 27 April 2003, the party won 58.0 % of the votes and received 238 of the 301 parliamentary seats in the Majlis ash- Shura, the Yemeni Parliament.