General Secretary of the YSP

General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party
الأمين العام للحزب الاشتراكي اليمني
Emblem of the Yemeni Socialist Party
Incumbent Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf since 2015
First holder	Abdul Fattah Ismail
Final holder	Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent as the "People's Republic of Southern Yemen" in November 1967, after the British withdrawal from the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia. In May 1990, South Yemen unified with the Yemen Arab Republic (commonly referred to as North Yemen) to form the united Republic of Yemen. During the May–July 1994 Civil War, South Yemen seceded from the united Yemen and established the short-lived Democratic Republic of Yemen.

Heads of party

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Yemeni Socialist Party
1		Abdul Fattah Ismail عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي (1939–1986)	21 December 1978	21 April 1980	1 year
2		Ali Nasir Muhammad علي ناصر محمد الحسني (1939–)	21 April 1980	24 January 1986	5 years
3		Ali Salem al Beidh علي سالم البيض (1939–)	24 January 1986	7 July 1994	8 years
4		Ali Saleh Obad Moqbel	1994	2005	10–11 years
5		Yasin Said Numan	2005	2015	10 years
6		Abdulrahman Al-Saqqaf	2015	present	8–9 years

See also

• President of South Yemen
• Prime Minister of South Yemen

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Halliday, Fred (2002). Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987. Cambridge University Press. p. 336. ISBN 0-521-89164-7.

External links

• World Statesmen – South Yemen