Yemen Socialist Party | political party, Yemen | Britannica (original) (raw)

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government of Yemen

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  In Yemen: Government and society
  ” The Yemen Socialist Party (YSP), the only legal political organization, determined government policy and exercised control over the state administrative system, the legislature, and the military.
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history of Yemen

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  In Yemen: Unification of Yemen
  …parties, the GPC and the YSP. Saleh was to serve as interim president of the republic, and al-Bayḍ, the secretary-general of the YSP, was to be vice president.
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  In Yemen: Two Yemeni states
  …South Yemen within the ruling Yemen Socialist Party (YSP), the party that evolved out of the NLF. ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl was the major ideologue of the YSP, as well as head of state and the driving force behind South Yemen’s move toward the Soviet Union earlier in the 1970s. Late…
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