A new era of hope

President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi attended the first parliamentary session held in Yemen on Saturday since the Houthi militia coup.

The parliamentary session was opened with the election of its new speaker, Sultan Al Burkani, who heads the General People’s Congress (GPC) party. The session was held in Seiyun in the eastern province of Hadhramaut, and was attended by 141 members, as well as international envoys and security personnel.

“The Houthis have made the capital a place of chaos,” Mr. Al Burkani said and asked officials to return to the temporary capital of Aden to fulfill their duties. In his address, Hadi stated that four months had passed since the Stockholm agreement and there had been no further progress.

“This meeting is convened during an extremely important and historic moment where we have to choose either peace or war,” Hadi said. The president said that Houthi crimes must be exposed, adding that they do not understand peace