General People’s Congress

…party by far is the General People’s Congress; other parties include Iṣlāḥ (the Yemeni Congregation for Reform), the Nasserite Unionist Party, and several socialist organizations. Al-Ḥaqq Party, active in the 1990s, represented the interests of a Zaydī revivalist movement that began in the 1980s; it precipitated the rise of the…

…known as his party, the General People’s Congress (GPC), and steered Yemen into the age of oil.

President Saleh’s party, the GPC, emerged with a large plurality of seats. The Islamic Reform Grouping (Iṣlāḥ), the main organized opposition to the unification regime since 1990, and the YSP both won strong minority representation. Holding virtually all the seats, the three parties formed a coalition government in May…

…after unification, Saleh’s party, the General People’s Congress (GPC), won the largest representation in the House of Representatives (parliament). A full-scale civil war between forces of the north and the south broke out on May 5, 1994, but, when the fighting ended on July 7, Saleh remained firmly in power.…