Representative Hashed: The consolidation of the results of the war is a danger to peace, and the war has created a fertile environment for corruption, and the solution begins with the selection of independent figures who lead the way in the presidential elections.
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Responses from Representative Ahmed Saif Hashid to questions sent by the Russian agency Sputnik.
– What do you read from the speech of the leader of the Houthi group in Sanaa, in which he threatened those he described as infiltrators in Parliament, and does this mean that the group does not accept any critical or outside-the-authorized point of view? Do you fear being persecuted by this group and who are the targeted members of Parliament?
* How we read it is not important, but what is more important is how it will be implemented. I believe that the implementation will be part of the replacement carried out at the level of all authorities and agencies in Sanaa. This is in line with the policy of empowerment and as long as empowerment continues, isolationism and exclusivity in governance will increase. We saw it and still see it today.
We have seen something similar before…and it is still happening in stages with different titles, but it is within the framework of replacement and substitution…replacement is still going on in all settings of agencies and authorities…eliminating those who are not loyal to the group and replacing them with loyal ones, even if they are weaker, fragile and corrupt, or this is what is carefully happening in reality…the norms of loyalty have become effective, and they are the first to be taken into account consideration to the detriment of all standards, and in most of them they will be as well. come at the expense of those who occupy a position. Or an opinion or point of view regarding the group.
The isolation of the group on itself will lead to its shrinking and the expansion of society’s rejection of it. Every day it upsets a group of people, a social segment, even elite elements that the group considered the best, but who then understood through reality and policies that they were no longer different from others.
This closure will certainly lead to the emergence of centers of power in the group, and to the intensification of contradictions and then intra-group conflicts within the group itself. Contradictions are a universal law. The struggle of opposites is a law that applies to consciousness, society and the entire universe. Perhaps the secondary contradictions we see in the group today will turn into major contradictions tomorrow.
Suppressing other opinions from outside the group will not put an end to the contradictions between it and society. On the contrary, it will also lead to the resurgence of other methods in the group motivated by the growth of personal or other ambitions, the emergence of internal conspiracies, perhaps coups, or the escalation and explosion of conflicts between its centers of power, and perhaps some of them will find someone to finance and support them secretly or openly from the outside in a way that will accelerate their explosion if their timing exceeds the foreseeable future. Nor will it end the group’s contradictions with society. Apart from it, especially since we are witnessing an expansion of exclusion, a proliferation of demands, a spread of corruption and an increase in repression.
As for your question about the fear of being persecuted by the group, for my part, I live in Sanaa in a situation similar to suicide. This is my situation today in an authoritarian environment that accepts me today with patience and bitterness, and it certainly cannot do so in the future…and others will not be saved as long as the targeting broadens in favor of loyalty to the group and the group only. No other…
It is important to emphasize here that this situation is not limited to Sanaa, but has its equivalents elsewhere. The de facto authorities we see today are no less exclusive, possessive and corrupt than the Ansar Allah group, in addition to a frightening dependence on the outside world, and in a way that seems ready to make any concessions to the outside world in exchange for its survival and support, even if it comes at the expense of Yemen’s land, sovereignty, unity and major interests.
– How do you see the solution to the current political situation in Yemen, in light of the failure of all attempts to bring peace to Yemen, and in your opinion, which parties benefit from the continuation of the war?
* It is dangerous that the path to peace is to perpetuate the results of this heinous and fragmenting war which implements the agendas of others to the detriment of the agendas and interests of Yemen and its people, its unity, its sovereignty and its territorial integrity. Peace was possible and still is not impossible.
Why weren’t five independent Yemeni figures chosen who did not participate in the war and do not belong to any of its parties, who normalize the situation in order to elect a president of the republic with the free will of the people and with guarantees that prevent any influence on them with money, military force or other means? Then the president-elect prepares the conditions for parliamentary elections with complete freedom and with the guarantee that they will not be influenced by the war parties and their supporters, and then the steps follow as part of a plan that will save Yemen from where it is already heading today.
We do not want to recycle waste, perpetuate the results of war and reproduce its parties so that they can regain control of the failed political process. Anyone who started the war or participated in it cannot be an actor in peace and the future of Yemen. The one who led us to all these disasters and created all these horrors and tragedies that will last for the next two or three generations cannot escape and live through the future.
That is if we want a future for Yemen. As for the transfer of power to a consensual representative or presidential council between the warring parties, there is no hope for the future. On the contrary, we will continue to suffer more and pay high costs for longer and longer periods, at the expense of a future of which we will only see what is fatal and unfortunate.
As for your question about the parties who profit from the war, they are well known, first and foremost the arms-selling mafias active in certain countries, the war merchants, as well as the forces that transformed Yemen and made it an arena for settling international scores, and with them the parties of the local war and its carriers who want to play the role of agent in tearing the nation apart on the land, human, historical and geographical level.
As for what you called in your question the previous peace attempts, from what reality reveals, I do not consider them as such, and it seems to me that the great international powers do not intend to establish peace, but rather that their intention is to divide and tear Yemen apart and to legitimize this division and partition through partial agreements between the Yemeni parties and with an international guarantee legitimized at the international level, and in a way that brings undermining the unity of Yemen, its people, its sovereignty, its interests and its future.
As for the prolongation of the war and fighting in Yemen, we see that one of its objectives is to consolidate the reality produced by this bloody and ugly war, and perhaps to make some adjustments to the reality partly in accordance with the ambitions, interests and satisfaction of some of the main countries in Yemen, or perhaps to find solutions to these problems in other issues outside Yemen. And also, to some extent, with the interests of regional countries, as part of the plan to tear Yemen apart and undermine its lands and sovereignty. To date, we have not found serious avenues to establish a real and sincere peace that puts the interests of Yemen before the ambitions and interests of adults.
The situation in Yemen is witnessing a spread of corruption in various regions, whether controlled by the legitimate government or controlled by the Houthi salvation government. How do you describe the situation in Sanaa and, in your opinion, what is the main reason for its spread in Sanaa?
* Don’t talk to me about Sanaa and don’t turn a blind eye to the rest of Yemen. I’m talking to you about Yemen. The war created an environment of corruption a thousand times greater than corruption itself could have dreamed of. Corruption has spread to an incredible degree. It has become an unprecedented corruption in times like those before. He now has all the means and support necessary to subjugate those who pay him with his labor and blood. Corruption in Yemen is supported regionally and internationally, and in fact this external support has played a major role in most of this corruption is manufactured, which has become enormous and exerts its power, tyranny and tyranny over the people.
– There is talk in many circles of the possibility that the new UN envoy will present a peace plan in which President Hadi would not participate and appoint a consensual vice-president who would hand over the powers of the president. How do you see the effectiveness of such a proposal in resolving the conflict in Yemen?
* Recycling the remains of war or reproducing its results does not create peace, a future or a free and independent homeland. The solution must be a transition to genuine peace and a Yemen that aspires to a future that is not bound by or dependent on the weight of the past. I indicated that it was not impossible and put some titles in an answer to a previous question. This is if there is a real desire for peace and a future and if we give priority to the interests of Yemen over the ambitions which want to tear it apart, subjugate it and occupy part of it.
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