Basic principles:

Loyalty to God, homeland and the republican revolution.

Basic principles:

Strengthen national unity and democracy; bring about social justice.

Basic principles:

Islam is a system which directs all as­pects of life. Committed to the republican system.

Unity and democracy:

Protection of unity and de­mocracy based on the mul­ti-party system.

Unity and democracy:

Strengthen national unity and democracy.

Unification of armed forces is an urgent task.

Unity and democracy:

Oppose all divisive factors, so as to preserve national unity.

Continue the experiment in consultative democracy (shurawiyya).

Support “peaceful alternation of power through the ballot box”.

Strengthen parliament: “The reform of the country’s constitution will not take place until parliament becomes an effective instrument.”

Religion:

Party adheres to Islam as a faith and a sharia law.

Religion:

Establish Islamic university.

Religion:

Sharia should be the source of all legisla­tion.

Remove ambiguities in the constitution, or contradictions with sharia: “The constitution should confirm its superior reference to the Qur’an and Sunna.”

“Take inspiration” from the ‘ulema.

Close Aden brewery, which is “a challenge to God’s law”.

Foreign affairs:

Develop relations with the GCC.

Resolve border issues with Saudi Arabia .

Support the Palestinian people in their quest for in­dependence.

Foreign affairs:

Find a peaceful solution to the border problems.

Foreign affairs:

Solidarity to­wards the Arab and Muslim world, especially Palestine and Bosnia .

End negative consequences of the Gulf war.

Economy:

Freedom of in­vestment to promote com­petition and balance be­tween the needs and the production of the country.

Sound, gradual implemen­tation of market policy.

Basic goods at a fixed price, with guaranteed quality.

Improve balance of pay­ments.

Limit inflation.

Expedite Aden Free Zone.

Reform economic and fi­nancial institutions.

Subsidise agriculture and fisheries to increase pro­duction.

Pay government employees on time

Improve communications and transport.

Resolve the land issues in eastern Yemen .

Economy:

Free competition.

Encourage Yemeni diaspora to invest without administra­tive obstruction.

Encourage investment by other Arab countries in petro­leum and mineral extraction.

Create the necessary infrastructure for industrial devel­opment to take place.

Encourage agricultural de­velopment by facilitating loans to farmers, and by ex­panding irrigation through contruction of dams.

Fix the price of basic food­stuffs and medicines.

Adopt a fair policy on wages which will “correspond to price levels.”

Propose laws determining relationship between land­owners and cultivators and between landlords and ten­ants.

Demand implementation of Aden Free Zone.

“The exploitation of natural resources must serve the development of the country.”

Economy:

Liberal policy, en­couraging local and foreign investment, especially in ad­vanced technology and petrochemicals.

Encourage light industries and agricultural sector.

Reduce budget deficit, curb inflation and devaluation of Riyal.

Improve social justice by re­ly­ing on direct, rather than indirect, taxation.

Oppose usury.

Provide more information on state use of oil revenues.

End concealed unemployment in ministries.

Improvement communication systems.

Health:

Invest in health care.

Health:

Improve training and living standard of health workers.

Involve local councils in management of health serv­ices; allow private invest­ment in health sector.

Health:

Improve health sector generally.

Better distribu­tion of hospitals and dispen­saries throughout the country.

Private investment in hospitals.

Housing:

Encourage development of housing resources.

Housing:

Develop housing for lower income groups; en­courage co-operatives.

Education:

Expand education.

Help mosques to fulfil their educational role.

Education:

Continue free schooling.

Gradu­ally make primary education compulsory.

Improve training of teachers and their standard of living.

Higher education: establish Islamic university; speed up con­struction of Ta’izz and Hadramaut universities.

Education:

Implement principle of compulsory schooling.

Establish scientific institutes and schools for Qur’anic learning.

Broader educational opportunities for women.

Modernise curriculum.

Produce better-defined educational policy and im­plement planned campaigns against illiteracy.

Social:

The family is the essential core of society.

Assist the integration of re­turnees.

Assist families who were affected by earlier political conflicts.

Civil rights:

Guarantee the right of op­position, the right of ex­pression in its different forms.

Adhere to the constitution, constitu­tional legitimacy, and the peaceful transfer of power.

Uphold the rights of citizens such as freedom, equality, social justice, se­curity, education, health and the upkeep of the mod­ern state.

Encourage trade unions.

Civil rights:

Respect freedom of opinion, right to free association, public demonstration and the right to strike.

Forbid surveillance of citizens.

Guarantee the rights of women.

Ban all exceptional powers.

Civil rights:

Freedom to express ideas and opinions forms part of the freedoms guaranteed by sharia.

Support a free press, free from all outside influence. Media must play their role in “developing the people’s con­science”, making them more responsible, in promoting trust between government and governed.

Devolution:

Reform local government and introduce the electoral principle.

Devolution:

“Local authority [devolved power] is the essential basis of democracy”.

Devolution:

Support decentralisation.

Women:

Guarantee rights of women under the Qur’an and the constitution.

Women:

Guarantee the rights of women.

Women:

Protect women from exploitation.

Reduce cost of marriage.

Broader educational opportunities for women.

Corruption:

Reform administrative bodies to end corruption.

Emphasise job qualifica­tions rather than politics in the workplace.

Corruption:

War on corruption: “the root cause of all our ills”.

Ensure that tax revenue reaches the state coffers.

Corruption:

All-out struggle against financial and administrative corruption.

Security:

Improve links between the people and security forces.

Combat crime, riots and ter­rorism.

Reform structure of the se­curity apparatus.

Enforce the laws on drug trafficking and bringing criminals to justice.

Security:

Ensure stability by reinfor­cing security and solving the “problem” of tribal power.

“Draconian measures” against assassins, those who incite disorder, etc.

Unification of armed forces is an urgent task.

Army should remain outside politics.

Army to withdraw from the major cities.Training and living conditions of security forces should be improved.

Security:

Armed forces to fulfil their “mission of democratic defence founded on the prin­ciple of the peaceful alterna­tion of power”.

Judicial reform:

Simplify judicial proced­ures.

Improve prison conditions.

Choose honest employees.

Clear the backlog of cases.

Judicial reform:

Abolish private prisons.

Forbid all arrests not ordered by a judge.

Strengthen impartiality by appointing judges on the basis of their competence and guarantee­ing them an appropriate standard of living.

Apply justice to all, equally.