Despite a month having passed, the Parliament Presidency has not responded to the letter submitted by 60 MPs to hold an urgent meeting

A Yemeni parliamentarian confirmed that the presidency of the House of Representatives did not respond to the letter of 60 parliamentarians to hold an urgent meeting, despite the passage of a month since it was sent.

MP Abdulrahman Muazab said in a post on the X platform: “A month ago today, and in accordance with the constitution, law, and articles of the council’s internal regulations, sixty parliamentarians requested to call for a meeting of the House of Representatives to carry out its role and exercise its duties, and so far no response has been received.”

1 month ago today
According to the constitution, the law and the articles of the internal regulations of the Council, sixty parliamentarians requested to call a meeting of the House of Representatives to carry out its role and exercise its duties...
So far, no response has been received... pic.twitter.com/Rhql9Nf5jw

— Abdulrahman Saleh Maazeb (@maazeb1) September 6, 2024

On August 6, 60 parliamentarians called in a letter addressed to the President and members of the Presidency of the Council, for the necessity of arranging and preparing for an urgent meeting of Parliament as soon as possible and no later than September.

In their letter, the representatives demanded that the Presidency assign the Finance Committee to conduct a field visit and submit a report on the level of implementation of the general budgets and the budgets of the economic units for the past two years.

They also stressed the need to activate the role of the Anti-Corruption Commission, and to assign the Control and Accounting Authority to visit all government agencies, and to provide the Council with periodic quarterly reports on the performance of ministries and economic sectors.

Since the Houthi coup in the fall of 2014, the council has only held two meetings in areas controlled by the legitimate government, one of which was in Aden in April 2022 for the Presidential Council to take the constitutional oath, and another preceded it in mid-April 2019, in the city of Seiyun in Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen, to appoint a new presidency for it.

In addition to security concerns about holding the council's sessions in one of the liberated governorates for fear of being targeted by the terrorist Houthi militia, the House of Representatives faces other challenges with the Transitional Council, which refuses to allow it to convene in the temporary capital, Aden, for separatist motives and to achieve external desires, as observers see it.

The council also faces other challenges with the presence of a new entity in the body of legitimacy that disputes its powers, which emerged after the formation of the "Consultation and Reconciliation Commission", which Article Two of the Declaration of the Transfer of Power in Yemen (April 7, 2022) stipulated that it should support and back the Presidential Leadership Council.