Al-Ahmar: Hadi's legitimacy is eroding, and the war in Yemen has turned into a war of attrition

Hamid Al-Ahmar, a member of the Yemeni parliament, a leader in the Yemeni Reform Party, said that the six-year-old war in Yemen witnessed a deviation from its goals after the liberation of Aden.

Al-Ahmar added - in an interview with the digital sector on the island - that the war in Yemen has turned into a war of attrition, which has affected all Yemenis, resulting in damage to the infrastructure, economic collapse and social crisis, and the Houthi-controlled areas have also witnessed the destruction of the Yemeni identity.

The Yemeni parliamentarian clarified that the coalition is running the war in Yemen, and it is the one who bears responsibility for the deviations that the war witnessed throughout the six years with awareness of it, and that legitimacy is only a facade, but it bears the responsibility for not resisting this deviation.

Commenting on the invitation to the Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi to return to Yemen, Al-Ahmar said that after 6 years of war it is no longer acceptable for the leadership of the country to remain abroad, as the legitimacy of the leadership erodes when it is far and fails to perform its sovereign duties.

He added that the Yemeni political elite - who is one of them - is outside Yemen due to the absence of the state's leadership, but on the other hand they cling to this legitimacy and are working to compel it to play its roles, correct its relationship with the coalition and impose its sovereignty over all liberated areas.

On the Biden administration's retreat from classifying the Houthi group as a terrorist organization, Al-Ahmar considered that the administration of former US President Donald Trump was not serious in its decision to classify the Houthi group as a terrorist organization, because it did not do it until the last week of its life.

He stressed that the Biden administration’s retreat was not surprising and that the Democrats ’approach to the Yemeni file is linked to the Iranian file, and Biden’s appointment of a special envoy for the Yemeni file means that his administration will deal with the file directly and not through Saudi Arabia.

Al-Ahmar added that the coalition and Yemeni legitimacy do not need America to deal with the Houthis, and that the Arab alliance could turn into an Islamic alliance in which Turkey plays an important role if the need arises, but he stressed that the legitimate government is able to resolve on its own if the obstacles in front of it are removed, as he put it.

Al-Ahmar believed that the political solution with the Houthi group was difficult, ruling out that the group would be serious and able to enter a peaceful political process, unless it had a deterrent force represented in the legitimacy, but legitimacy, as he put it, was prevented from possessing this force.

Speaking about the new Yemeni government, Al-Ahmar pointed out that it is part of the Riyadh Agreement, which the rest of the parties have not fulfilled its security and military component, and that the primary goal of the agreement is to overcome the differences between the components of the legitimacy camp.

He explained that the Riyadh agreement came after concessions from legitimacy as a result of pressure on President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and that Saudi Arabia is responsible for implementing this agreement, and that the coalition is the one that prevented the House of Representatives from exercising its duties and meeting in order to support and support legitimacy.

He added that the battle is not primarily with the transitional council, but rather with those behind the transitional council, which is the Emirates, adding that it is not correct what the UAE declares that it has withdrawn from Yemen, as the UAE has a fundamental role in the military presence of the coalition forces, and it is present in several areas in Yemen, and supports some Political components.

Al-Ahmar confirmed that the UAE, through its ambassador in Moscow, sought to coordinate the visit of some southern leaders to Russia and hold meetings for them with the Wagner Company.

On the Gulf-Gulf dispute, Al-Ahmar said that they were Yemenis who were harmed by it, and considered Qatar's previous presence in the umbrella of the alliance as a kind of balance, and that its exit from the alliance as a result of the Gulf dispute might have contributed to the increase in the negative role of some parties within it.

Al-Ahmar said, "Today, with the return of the Gulf-Gulf relations, which we bless, we hope that Qatar will return to the positive role in supporting legitimacy," as he put it.

He also called for ending the roots of the conflict, which is larger than the current war, and returning the components of the political scene in Yemen to its normal size.

He emphasized that legitimacy is able to create an inclusive national formula if it returns home, and that the weakness is not only in the legitimacy, but in the leadership of the parties as well, and that there are voices in the Yemeni street calling for mechanisms to form a social force to overcome this bad situation.

On the possibility of dividing Yemen, Al-Ahmar considered that Iran seeks to divide Yemen so that there is an entity that follows it, and that the UAE does not mind dividing Yemen until there is a part of Yemen under its leadership through tools that it believes are able to manufacture and manage it so that it can control the ports. And islands.

Al-Ahmar believed that the solution lies in what the National Dialogue went to in terms of the existence of a unitary entity in which a kind of self-management of the regions.

In his response to those who consider that the situation in Yemen is due to the youth revolution that erupted in February 2011 against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al-Ahmar said that the youth revolution is a good revolution, and it does not bear the mistakes of others or what the revolutionaries did.

Al-Ahmar emphasized that the Yemeni youth are among the most affected by the bulldozing of the Yemeni identity, the loss of the future and the collapse of the economy, and they are concerned with restoring the state and exerting constructive pressure on legitimacy to play its role or replace it.