The fixed and the moving in Yemeni legitimacy?

Since the formation of the Presidential Leadership Council in April 2022 as the highest representative of the internationally recognized legitimate Yemeni authority, several questions of confusion and astonishment have been embodied about the nature of the work of this legitimacy within the scope of its responsibilities and powers, what is fixed and moving in its internal and external policies with its militia coup opponent, and its tangible achievements in public affairs?

In other words, its political and diplomatic scope is mobile in terms of its recognized legitimacy, compared to an unrecognized coup opponent, who is registered as a regional and international danger, whose political scope is fixed and unable to influence in light of the international consensus and the Arab coalition to freeze its effectiveness and restrict its movement.

But reality proves the opposite of this theoretical concept by reflecting the characteristics of stability and movement between the two opponents. Despite its possession of all the elements of sovereignty and international recognition as the legitimate government of Yemen, it is tied up, cornered in a narrow corner, with amputated arms, helpless, in getting out of the crucible of commitment to international agreements that have restricted its movement and frozen its actions, unlike its unrecognized Houthi opponent, who is internationally viewed as a nobody, and an Iranian arm that threatens the region and international navigation. However, the international response to it is consistent with the concept: its appearance is hostile to it, but its interior is a savior of all its crises, and maintains its hegemony and its abuses against the legitimate Yemeni government and people.

The legitimacy is keen on its firm commitment to all instructions of the international community and adherence to the treaties it has signed, and the orders imposed on it, such as the clause to stop the war included in the formation of the Leadership Council, but it was not followed by an explanation of how to stop it, and the extent of the other party’s response to this clause.

Anyone who looks at the size of the challenges facing legitimacy would expect its movement to be a shuttle that does not know stability, working with the utmost of its capabilities, efforts and expertise to avoid failure at this critical historical moment, and not surrendering to defeats or being satisfied with the results, but rather seeking to turn the equations in its favor and bring about a tangible transformation despite the risks and political, economic and military positions.

That is why we are in dire need to understand what is happening with an authority that represents us and carries the banner of our ambitions and the banner of our present and future, and our situation is getting worse day after day, and we must commit to obeying its policy and submitting to its decisions.

A state of schizophrenia between us and it, and we are not here in the context of exposing its faults, criticizing its mistakes, or stirring up confusion that would destabilize its entity; rather, it is confusion about it and concern for it from the plots being hatched against it while it shows good intentions and sobriety in managing the country’s affairs until we reached a state of despair and deadly silence that we were unable to bear and the deteriorating situation that swept away our tranquility and confidence in our wise leadership that works for our benefit as a people and a state.