Local Editor
Saudi-backed former Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is taking a rare trip out of Saudi Arabia this weekend, landing in the Yemeni city of Sayoun to attend the first meeting of parliament since the Saudi invasion in 2015.
However, the legitimacy of both Hadi and the so-called parliament is in such serious doubt. In many ways, it is seen as a farce.
The so-called parliament, after all, was elected way back in 2009, before the Arab Spring, and their six-year term in office ran out in 2015.
Four years later, that parliament still claims legitimacy, and will be overseen by Hadi, a president who was “elected” in a UN-mandated single candidate vote in 2012 for a two year term in office, and who over five years after his term ran out still purports to be the legitimate president.
That all these terms in office long since expired has been largely ignored internationally, because the Saudis are backing them, though in practice the Saudi interest is mostly that neither the parliament nor the president are Shiites.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
