Before the Yemeni Revolution in 2011 and the following civil war, Yemen was a one party dominant state in which the General People's Congress (GPC) held power.
Legal status
Yemen's Political Parties Law mandates that political parties be viable national organizations comprising at least 75 founders and 2,500 members and not restrict membership to a particular region. The government provides financial support to political parties, including a stipend for newspaper publication.<br/>anti-Houthi
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|National Accord Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الوفاق الوطني</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Wafaq al-Watani</small>
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| Big Tent<br/>Pro-Houthi
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|Nasserist Reform Organisation<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">تنظيم التصحيح الشعبي الناصري</span><br/><small>Tanzim at-Tashikh ash-Shabi an-Nasiri</small>
|NRO
| - Mujahed al-Quhali
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|National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي القومي</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī al-Qawmi</small>
|NASB
|Ahmad Shutri
|Ba'athism<br/>Arab socialism
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|Yemeni Dignity Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الكرامة اليمني</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Karamah al-Yamanī</small>
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| Ahmad Abdurrahman al-'Ammari
|Patriotism<br/>Centrism<br/>Militarism<br/>pro-Houthi
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|Liberation Front Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب جبهة التحرير</span><br/><small>Ḥizb Jabhat at-Tahrīr</small>
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| Arab nationalism
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|Democratic Nasserist Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الحزب الناصري الديمقراطي</span><br/><small>al-Ḥizb al-Nasiri al-Dimuqrati</small>
|DNP
| -Yassin Abdu Saeed
| Center-left<br>Nasserism<br/>Arab nationalism
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|Hizb ut-Tahrir<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب التحرير</span><br/><small>Ḥizb at-Taḥrīr</small>
|HT
|Ata Abu Rashta
|Islamism<br/>Caliphalism
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|Party of Truth<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الحق</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Haqq</small>
|HP
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|Zaydi Islamism
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|Yemeni Unionist Congregation<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">التجمع الوحدوي اليمني</span><br/><small>at-Tajammu' al-Wahdawī al-Yamanī</small>
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| Center-left<br>Arab nationalism
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Defunct parties
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|Democratic Unionist Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الحزب الوحدوي الديمقراطي</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Wahdawi ad-Dimuqrati</small>
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| Center-left<br>Arab nationalism
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|Democratic Septembrist Organization<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">التنظيم السبتمبري الديمقراطي</span><br/><small>at-Tanẓīm as-Sabtambarī ad-Dīmuqrātī</small>
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| -
| Center-left<br>Arab nationalism
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|People's Vanguard Party (South Yemen)<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الطليعة الشعبية</span><br/><small>Ḥizb at-Tali'ah ash-Sha'abiyah</small>
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| Abdallah Badhib
| Ba'athism
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|Popular Democratic Union<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الاتحاد الشعبي الديمقراطي</span><br/><small>Ittihad ash-Sha'abi ad-Dīmuqrātī</small>
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| Center-left<br>Arab nationalism
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|Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الاتحاد الشعبي الديمقراطي اليمن</span><br/><small>Ḥizb ad-Dīmuqrātī ath-Thawrī al-Yaman</small>
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| Sultan Omar
| Marxism-Leninism<br/>Arab nationalism
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|Yemen Green Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الخضر الاجتماعي</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Khadhr al-Ijtimā'ī</small>
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| Green politics
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|Yemeni League Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الرابطة اليمنية</span><br/><small>Ḥizb ar-Rabitah al-Yamaniyah</small>
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| Center
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|Yemeni Popular Unity Party<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الوحدة الشعبية اليمنية</span><br/><small>Ḥizb al-Wahdah ash-Sha'abiyah al-Yamaniyah</small>
| YPUP
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| Center-left<br>Arab nationalism
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|Yemeni Progressive Organization<br/><span lang="ar" dir="ltr">التنظيم التقدمي اليمني</span><br/><small>at-Tanzim at-Taqadumi al-Yamani</small>
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| Center-left
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List of coalitions
- The National Council for the Forces of the Peaceful Revolution was declared on 17 August 2011, amidst the Yemeni Revolution, to unite the opposition groups, parties, coalitions, and youth protesters. Among the 143 representatives elected to sit on it are leaders from Al-Islah, the South Yemen Movement, the Alliance of Yemeni Tribes, and the defected First Armoured Division.
- The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) was formed in 2005 by five opposition parties to effect political and economic reform. The spokesperson as of 23 March 2011 is Muhammad Qahtan, who replaced Mohammed Al-Sabri. Following the fall of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the coalition disappeared without a formal dissolution.
- The Common Forum includes the five biggest opposition groups in Yemen, including Reform, Socialist, Nasserist, Popular Force and al-Haq. (Likely just another name for the JMP.)
See also
- 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution