The internationally recognized government prime minister of Yemen, the former diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Bin Mubarak, announced his resignation on Saturday, saying that he could not completely exercise his powers.
The Yemen government retired to Aden in the south after the Houthi rebels took the Sanaa capital in 2014 and then controlled most population centers in the impoverished country of the Arabian Peninsula.
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in support of governments besieged in 2015, but with little success.
“I just met with his excellence, president of the Presidential Leadership Council, Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi, and resigned as Prime Minister,” Bin Mubarak published in X, he also shared his renunciation letter.
“I could not exercise my constitutional powers and make the necessary decisions to reform government institutions or implement legitimate governmental changes,” said the letter.
Their movement occurs when the hutis freaks a campaign of missile attacks against Israel and the objective shipping in key river roads in what they say is a sample of solidarity with the Palestinians about the conflict in Gaza.
Bin Mubarak said that despite obstacles, he had managed to achieve “many successes in a short space of time”, citing fiscal and administrative reforms and an anti -corruption unit.
However, analyst Mohammed Albasha, from Basha Risk Assory, based in Basha’s report. AFP That Bin Mubarak had been “constantly friction with the Presidential Leadership Council.”
Albasha said the main driver behind the resignation was that “Bin Mubarak wanted to be more than the prime minister: he wanted the powers of the presidency. That aspiration isolated him politically.
“His impulse for greater power, seen by many as fed by personal ambition, led to repeated confrontations with key ministers and most of the members of the Council.”
“Over time, this struggle of power eroded trust,” he added.
‘Deep divisions’
Bin Mubarak, former Ambassador of Yemen in the United States, is a firm adversary of the Hutíes, who kidnapped him in 2015 and kept him captive for several days.
He previously served as Chief of Cabinet of the Presidential Office and was also appointed from Yemen to the United Nations in 2018. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2018 and Prime Minister on February 5, 2024.
Bin Mubarak asked the European Union to designate the Hutis a terrorist group, and advocated greater military support to government forces as the Hutis launched attacks from the Red Sea.
Its departure must “relieve internal tensions and reduce the deep divisions that have affected the internationally recognized government of Yemen, a necessary and positive step to restore cohesion,” said Albasha.
The conflict in Yemen has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, although the fight has decreased significantly since the United Nations negotiated a six -month truce in April 2022.
Since it broke out in the Gaza Strip in October 2023 after Hamas attacked Israel, the Hutis have repeatedly attacked Israel and send ships in the Red Sea and Aden’s Gulf that they say they are linked to him.
The Hutis stopped their attacks during a recent two -month -old Gaza fire, but in March, their threat to resume attacks on the help blockade of Israel de Gaza caused a renewed and sustained air campaign of the United States air campaign guidance areas in Yemen under rebel control.
