Millions of Yemenis Rally in Show of Support to Supreme Political Council
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Millions of people rallied in Yemen to voice their strong support for a political body recently formed to run the country in the face of a Saudi military campaign to reinstate a former president.
They waved national Yemeni flags and chanted slogans like "We will sacrifice our souls and blood for the sake of Yemen," as patriotic songs played.
They also carried placards with messages reading, "Reforms are the most efficient popular force in the face of enemies" in Arabic in an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia and Abed Rabboh Mansour Hadi.
Hadi resigned as president in January 2015 and then fled to Saudi Arabia which launched a ferocious military campaign against Yemen two months later to restore him to power.
The formation of the Supreme Political Council prompted Yemen's parliament to hold its first session since the outbreak of the conflict earlier this month. The lawmakers endorsed the new council and formally stripped Hadi of any responsibility.
The establishment of the Council was agreed during a meeting between Yemen's Ansarullah revolutionary movement and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's General People's Congress party back in late July. It was formally launched on August 6, when the Ansarullah and Saleh's faction announced that they both had an equal share in the 10-member body.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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