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The General People's Congress (GPC; ) is a political party in Yemen. It has been the de jure ruling party of Yemen since 1993, three years after unification. The party is dominated by a nationalist line, and its official ideology is Arab nationalism, seeking Arab unity.
In the course of the Yemeni civil war, the party's founder and Leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was killed, while the GPC fractured into three factions backing different sides in the conflict.
History
The party was established on 24 August 1982 in Sanaa, North Yemen, by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Following Yemeni unification in 1990, and with Saleh continuing as president of the united country, it emerged as the largest party in the 1993 parliamentary elections, winning 123 of the 301 seats. It went on to win a majority (187) of seats in the 1997 elections amidst a boycott by the Yemeni Socialist Party.
Saleh was re-elected as president in the first direct presidential elections in 1999, and the party won a landslide victory in the 2003 parliamentary elections, winning 226 of the 301 seats. Following the elections, several independent MPs also joined the party. Saleh was re-elected again in 2006. On 25 February 2012, he resigned from the presidency as a result of the Yemeni protests (2011-2012), and Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi of the same party was elected as his successor. Saleh attempted to regain power over the country and the GPC Party in the following 2014 civil war. Rallying a large part of the GPC in 2015, he sided with the Houthis and effectively split the party into a pro-Hadi and a pro-Saleh faction.