Ṣāliḥ, ʿAli ʿAbd Allāh

Ṣāliḥ, ʿAli ʿAbd Allāh

▪ president of Yemen
Ṣāliḥ also spelled  Saleh 
born March 21, 1942, Bayt al-Aḥmar, North Yemen [now in Yemen]

      Yemeni military officer who led a coup against the government of North Yemen in 1962 and who became president in 1978; in 1990 he became president of a reunified Yemen.

      Ṣāliḥ attended the local Qurʾānic school and joined the army at age 16. Four years later, on Sept. 26, 1962, he led a military coup that replaced the imamate of North Yemen with a civilian government (see Yemen: Two Yemeni states (Yemen)). Continuing to advance in his military career, he helped to bring Ibrāhīm al-Ḥamdī to power in a 1974 coup, but the assassination of Ḥamdī in 1977 and of his successor in the following year threw the country into turmoil. The result was Ṣāliḥ's elevation to the presidency by the People's Constituent Assembly on July 17, 1978. He survived an attempted military coup later in the year and in 1983 was reelected unanimously by the People's Constituent Assembly to a new term.

      From the beginning Ṣāliḥ promoted the unification of North Yemen with South Yemen (Aden), and the merger finally took place on May 22, 1990, with Ṣāliḥ as president. In April 1993, in the first elections held after unification, Ṣāliḥ's party, the General People's Congress (GPC), won the largest representation in the House of Representatives (parliament). A full-scale civil war between forces of the north and the south broke out on May 5, 1994, but when the fighting ended on July 7, Ṣāliḥ remained firmly in power. In elections held in 1997 the GPC consolidated its control of parliament, further strengthening the president's position. In the first direct elections for the presidency, held in September 1999, he won more than 96 percent of the ballots cast, although most opponents boycotted the voting.

      In February 2001 constitutional amendments put forth by Ṣāliḥ and the GPC to extend the presidential term from five to seven years and the legislature's term from four to six years were passed in a national referendum. In the 2003 legislative elections, the GPC further strengthened its position in parliament, and in the presidential elections of September 2006, Ṣāliḥ was reelected to another term as president.

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