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{{Politics of Yemen}}

'''Parliamentary elections''' have not been held in Yemen since [[2003 Yemeni parliamentary election|2003]]. As the term of the [[House of Representatives (Yemen)|House of Representatives]] is six years and the last elections were in 2003, the next elections were originally set for 27 April 2009, but [[President of Yemen|President]] [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] postponed them by two years on 24 February 2009 because, Saleh claimed, of the threat of an electoral boycott by a coalition of opposition parties called the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP).<ref>{{cite web
| url        = http://www.mei.edu/content/yemen-postpones-its-april-2009-parliamentary-elections
| title      = Yemen Postpones Its April 2009 Parliamentary Elections
| author     = Stephen Day
| publisher  = Middle East Institute
| date       = 2009-06-02
| accessdate = 2015-04-04
}}</ref><ref>[http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=268 Parliament Overwhelmingly Approves Proposal To Extend Term] Yemen Post, 10 April 2010</ref>

However, elections did not take place on 27 April 2011 either and they were planned to be held alongside the [[Next Yemeni presidential election|next presidential election]], scheduled for sometime in February 2014.<ref>{{cite web
| url        = http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2012-09/yemen.php
| title      = September 2012 Monthly Forecast – Yemen
| website    = Security Council Report
| date       = 2012-08-31
}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |title=Foreign Secretary welcomes Yemeni plan for elections in 2014 |date=7 March 2013 |publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-welcomes-yemeni-plan-for-elections-in-2014 |accessdate=7 July 2013}}</ref> A special [[2012 Yemeni presidential election|presidential election was held in 2012]] following the [[Yemeni Revolution]]. In January 2014, the final session of the [[National Dialogue Conference]] (NDC) announced that both elections had been delayed, and would occur within 9 months of a referendum on a new constitution which had yet to be drafted.<ref>[http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/21/215244/yemens-national-dialogue-ends.html Yemen’s ‘national dialogue’ ends in violence, no election scheduled] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121174740/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/21/215244/yemens-national-dialogue-ends.html |date=2015-01-21 }} McClatchy DC, 21 January 2014</ref> However both the [[General People's Congress (Yemen)|GPC]] and [[Houthi]] representatives on the National Authority for Monitoring the Implementation of NDC Outcomes have refused to vote on the new constitution drafted by the constitution drafting committee, which submitted it in January 2015.<ref>[http://www.yementimes.com/en/1852/news/4814/Houthis-and-GPC-refuse-to-vote-on-constitution.htm Houthis and GPC refuse to vote on constitution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708075349/http://www.yementimes.com/en/1852/news/4814/Houthis-and-GPC-refuse-to-vote-on-constitution.htm |date=2018-07-08 }} Yemen Times, 19 January 2015</ref> The [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]] began in September 2014.

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