Al-Houthi demands parliamentarians in Sanaa to pass new laws and persuade their colleagues abroad to return
English - Sunday 25 April 2021 الساعة 02:23 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Sources in the Sana'a Parliament said that leaders of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm, met with a number of members of the militia-controlled council during the first week of the current month of Ramadan and discussed with them a number of issues related to the approval of new legislation, and the issue of communicating with members of parliament abroad.
The sources added to NewsYemen that Houthi leaders, including Fadl Abu Talib, Secretary General of the Houthi Political Bureau, and Houthi leader Abdul Salam Hashoul, Deputy Speaker of Parliament that is subject to the militias in Sana'a, held meetings with a number of Parliament members affiliated with the General People's Congress and some members who had been escalated before The militias are part of formal elections held for the vacant seats whose owners have died, during the first week of the current month of Ramadan, as part of an evening resignation called by the militia leadership.
According to the sources, the most prominent issues raised by the Houthi leaders to members of Parliament are the existence of a new package of laws, and other amendments to effective laws that will be submitted during the coming period to the Council, asking members of the Council to work to pass those laws, vote on them and approve them without any problems or obstacles. The sources did not mention additional details about these laws and legislations, but they indicate that they have a relationship to the policy of the Houthi militias, to consolidate their hegemony and control over the various joints of the state, and to change the mechanisms and methods of work of some institutions of a revenue nature in addition to what concerns the judiciary.
According to the same sources, the militia leaders also raised to the members the issue of the possibility of communicating with their fellow parliamentarians who are abroad and persuading them to return to their work within the framework of the House of Representatives in Sana'a, noting that the Houthi leadership told members of Parliament that they could make promises to any parliamentarian who would accept the idea of returning. Including him in what it calls a general amnesty, and returning his confiscated property, on the condition that he return to practice his work in the Sana'a Council and have positions in support of the militias' tendencies.
The sources emphasized that the militia leaders told parliamentarians the importance of focusing in their communication with parliamentarians abroad on the failure of the House of Representatives supported by the legitimacy to hold any session since the date it held the voting session on the election of Sultan al-Barakani as its president in April 2019, unlike the House of Representatives in Sana'a which is practicing Currency.
