Yemenis hold mass rally to support new ruling coalition

Yemeni people have staged a mass rally in the capital, Sana’a, to voice their support for a new coalition government including the ruling Houthi Ansarullah movement and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party.

People gathered in the streets of Sana’a on Monday to express their support for the new alliance which they said could better counter the ongoing Saudi invasion and help Yemenis restore peace and order to their country.

The demonstrators said, however, that the armed resistance against the Saudi invasion should continue.

They also chanted slogans against Saudi Arabia, saying the regime in Riyadh is not committed to its promises to halt air strikes against Yemen to help facilitate the ongoing political negotiations in Kuwait aimed at putting an end to the conflict in the Arab country.

They also said plots to undermine the peace talks in Kuwait would go nowhere, adding that the Yemenis would never agree to a peace plan that would bring the resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, back to power.

On Sunday, the Ansarullah movement and its allies rejected as unacceptable a United Nations peace plan proposed to the delegations in Kuwait, saying the plan lacked any initiative for establishing a unity government in the war-torn country.