General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party

General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party
الأمين العام للحزب الاشتراكي اليمني
Incumbent
Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf
since 19 December 2014
Formation13 October 1978 (1978-10-13)
First holderAbdul Fattah Ismail
Final holderAbdulrahman Al-Saqqaf

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent as the "People's Republic of Southern Yemen" in November 1967, after the British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia. In May 1990, South Yemen unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (commonly referred to as North Yemen) to form the united Republic of Yemen. During the May–July 1994 Civil War, South Yemen seceded from the united Yemen and established the short-lived Democratic Republic of Yemen.

Predecessors

National Liberation Front (1963–1975)

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front
No. Officeholder Took office Left office Length of tenure Term Birth PM Death Ref.
1 Qahtan al-Shaabi
(قحطان محمد الشعبي) 		19 August 1963 22 June 1969 5 years, 307 days 1st–4th
(1965–1969) 		1920 1963 1981 [1]
2 Abdul Fattah Ismail
(عبد الفتاح إسماعيل) 		22 June 1969 14 October 1975 6 years, 114 days 4th–5th
(1969–1975) 		1939 1963 1986 [2]

People's Democratic Union (1961–1975)

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Union
No. Officeholder Took office Left office Length of tenure Term Birth PM Death Ref.
1 Abdullah Badheeb
(عبد الله باذيب) 		22 October 1961 14 October 1975 13 years, 357 days 1st–2nd
(1961–1975) 		1931 1961 1976 [3]

People's Vanguard Party (1974–1975)

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Vanguard Party
No. Officeholder Took office Left office Length of tenure Birth PM Death Ref.
1 Anis Hasan Yahya
(أنيس_حسن_يحيى) 		April 1974 14 October 1975 1 year, 196 days 1934 1974 Alive [4]

Unified Nationalist Front Political Organization (1975–1978)

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Unified Nationalist Front Political Organization
No. Officeholder Took office Left office Length of tenure Term Birth PM Death Ref.
1 Abdul Fattah Ismail
(عبد الفتاح إسماعيل) 		14 October 1975 13 October 1978 2 years, 364 days 6th–7th
(1975–1978) 		1939 1963 1986 [2]

Officeholders

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Yemeni Socialist Party
No. Officeholder Took office Left office Length of tenure Term Birth PM Death Ref.
1 Abdul Fattah Ismail
(عبد الفتاح إسماعيل) 		13 October 1978 20 April 1980 1 year, 190 days 1st
(1978–1980) 		1939 1978 1986 [1]
2 Ali Nasir Muhammad
(علي ناصر محمد) 		21 April 1980 24 January 1986 5 years, 278 days 1st–2nd
(1978–1986) 		1939 1978 Alive [5]
3 Ali Salem al-Beidh
(علي سالم البيض) 		6 February 1986 7 July 1994 8 years, 151 days 3rd
(1986–1998) 		1939 1978 Alive [6]
4 — Ali Saleh Obad
(علي صالح عباد) 		September 1994 31 July 2005 10 years, 333 days 3rd–4th
(1986–2005) 		1942 1978 2019 [7]
5 Yasin Said Numan
(ياسين سعيد نعمان) 		31 July 2005 19 December 2014 9 years, 141 days 5th
(2005–present) 		1947 1978 Alive [8]
6 — Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf
(عبد الرحمن السقاف) 		19 December 2014 Incumbent 10 years, 241 days 5th
(2005–present) 		1956 ? Alive [9]

See also

References

Books

  • Brehoney, Noel (2011). Yemen Divided: The Story of a Failed State in South Arabia. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-635-6.
  • Halliday, Fred (2002). Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967–1987. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-89164-7.
  • Naumkin, Vitaly V. (2004). Red Wolves of Yemen: The Struggle for Independence. The Oleander Press. ISBN 0-906672-70-8.

Book sections

  • Ishiyama, John (2019). Feliu, Laura; Izquierdo-Brichs, Ferran (eds.). Communism and organizational symbiosis in South Yemen: The People’s Democratic Union, the National Liberation Front and the Yemeni Socialist Party. Routledge. pp. 168–183. ISBN 978-0-367-13445-7.

Web articles

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Halliday 2002, p. 336; Brehoney 2011, p. 120; Ishiyama 2019, p. 174.
  2. ^ a b Halliday 2002, p. 336; Ishiyama 2019, p. 174.
  3. ^ Brehoney 2011, pp. 15 & 56.
  4. ^ Naumkin 2004, p. 62.
  5. ^ Halliday 2002, p. 336; Ishiyama 2019, pp. 178–181.
  6. ^ Halliday 2002, p. 336; Al Jazeera 2014; Ishiyama 2019, pp. 177–178.
  7. ^ Ishiyama 2019, pp. 179–180; Sa24 2019.
  8. ^ Almasdar Online 2014, p. 181; Ishiyama 2019.
  9. ^ The New Arab 2014.
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