Yemen Socialist Party
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Yemeni Socialist Party
الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني |
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| General Secretary | Abdulraham Al-Saqqaf |
| Founder | Abdul Fattah Ismail, Ali Nasser Muhammad, Ali Salem al Beidh |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Preceded by | Unified Political National Front Organisation |
| Headquarters | Aden, Yemen |
| Ideology |
Arab socialism Arab nationalism Social democracy Factions: Marxism Democratic socialism Before 1990: Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Political position |
Centre-left to Left-wing Before 1990: Far-Left |
| International affiliation |
Progressive Alliance, Socialist International |
| Colours | Red |
| House of Representatives |
8 / 301
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| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
| www.aleshteraki.net | |
The Yemeni Socialist Party (Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani, YSP) is a political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen's National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until Yemeni unification in 1990. Originally Marxist–Leninist, the party has gradually evolved into a democratic socialist opposition party in today's unified Yemen.
The party was established by Abdul Fattah Ismail in 1978 following a unification process of a number of Yemeni revolutionary groups in both South and North Yemen. The core of the YSP came from the Unified Political National Front Organisation – itself the result of merging three parties, namely the National Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (NLF), the Democratic Popular Union Party (Marxist) and the Popular Vanguard Party (a left-wing Ba'athist party), and from the Yemeni Popular Unity Party in North Yemen – itself the result of merging of five left-wing organisations, namely the Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen, the Popular Vanguard Party in North Yemen, the Organisation of Yemeni Revolutionary Resistors, the Popular Democratic Union and the Labour Party. The sole legal party in the country, it won all 111 seats in the parliamentary elections in December 1978.
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