The national dialogue directs Yemen to uncertain future, MP Ahmed Hashisd said
Yemenat
Welcome Mr. Ahmed to Asia news agency, at the beginning how do you see the political scene today in Yemen?
We see the former powerful forces are still re-producing themselves, regain their status and reestablish themselves. Powerful positions today are working to reform themselves and consolidating their interests. Moreover, they are trying to impose themselves on all political outcomes in the coming stage. If he is looking for the future of Yemen, President Hadi has to get benefit of the international support in order to weaken and dismantle those forces unless he will find himself surrounded by or in the grip of those forces. He has to get benefit of the international support otherwise he will find himself is ruled by their backwardness and their political agenda, which will cost Yemen heavy price at the expense of its present and future. Perhaps President Hadi himself will become their victim if he is incautious or curries favor with them.
In an interview on 25 November 2012 with Aljmhoor Net site, you said that the shadow area controls the political scene. What do you mean by the shadow area?
I mean the former powerful forces and their prominent figures that run things from invisible areas where they live, and then they appear when it is needed or necessary. They make use of available tools, people and even institutions and employ them according to their interests at the expense of the present and the future of Yemen.
I mean those forces and symbols that wear masks and utilize certain figures to practice pressure and to impose their agenda to fulfill their interests and protect them. They kill, assassinate, spoil and commit crimes and atrocities behind the scenes to be far away from any accountability or justice. Then, if they are called to account, they impose their laws that exempt themselves from accountability and punishment and forward the scene again and again, and continue doing so as long as they are protected from any punishment. Our country and people are who pay the price every time.
Have you received any support from Iran? If so what kind?
I have answered this question repeatedly in many interviews till I get bored, and the most recent is the interview in Aljamhoor that you have mentioned in the previous question..
Some radical forces and their rusted platforms and poisoned media destroy all those who oppose them. They exploit the revolution to serve their political and narrow personal interests. Therefore, they practiced a fabricated campaign and unfair slander on me and on some others. Honestly speaking, I was shocked at the beginning because of the adoption of such miserable and misleading methods and because of those who showed favorable reactions towards such practices. I have revealed in a public forum about my bank accounts challenging those who spread the fabrications to do so. Today, it becomes clear. I think that people have become aware of who are with them and who are deceiving, manipulating and lying to them..
Everyone, including JMP accepted the Gulf initiative, why does Ahmed Saif Hashed stand against the initiative and in return, he resorts to Iran?
At the beginning, I would like to express my astonishment of repeating the same question. As I told you before that, I have already explained in details, in many interviews, the reasons behind my rejection of the Gulf initiative. I have answered the question about Iran as well. I think that you have to direct these questions to the signatories to the initiative and their partners in the Reconciliation Government. Ask them about the achievements that the initiative fulfilled to Yemen. Ask them also about their international relationships and about the international formal and informal subsidies they have received and still receiving. I have already commented on the falsehoods that are made up about me because of my opposition to the irresponsible practices and policies of the initiative and its parties. However, no one has commented on the private documents of the Saudi Committee published by the press or on the large-scale corruption that is going on inside the government until the very moment. I have only one compass, which is Yemen. I approach, agree or disagree with others on the basis of what I think it might serve my people, my country and revolution.
In a previous interview on the 19th of September 2012 with Yamanat site you said that the revolution is betrayed, looted and stolen, what did the RSF do for the revolution?
The Revolution is looted and stolen but we still have the opportunity to recover it. As far as the achievements of the Front are concerned, if you had acquainted with its positions and works, you would have realized that it fulfilled many things despite its recent establishment. We fulfilled what the political parties could not achieve during the last fifty years. We gain the trust of people increasingly, which is very important. We adopt their issues and demands and we take sides with them and their grievances being away from the political benefits and opportunism. We have made a covenant to ourselves that we will continue to adopt people's issues without deceiving them or making compromises on their equitable rights and interests.
Do you think that the revolution has failed?
It is difficult to say that the revolution has failed as long as it still has the pulse of life and undefeatable resistance. The Revolution age is not months or years. We still have enough time to judge its success or failure.
On the other hand, I think that Yemenis – because of what I have mentioned about the absence of security and about corruption – have a clear perspective of the real dimensions of the problem and its causes and of those who are the real obstacles to achieve security and welfare for the Yemenis. I think that despite the enormity of the situation, it reveals a lot and it brings out to people the causes of their problems and suffering.
In a previous interview you said that the revolution has witnessed great corruption for which the wounded and the families of the martyrs pay the price, how does corruption come together with the revolution?
Yes, there are corrupted people and thieves in the Revolution. There are those who felt at a moment that the boat of the former regime was drowning, therefore they jumped from it to the boat of the Revolution to survive and then to save their interests and recover their power. This was at the expenses of the revolution and the fates of the nation.
Now, the government, Almashaikh and the army commanders all are adherent to the Revolution!! Read the newspapers, read about corruption and corrupted people! Recite the documents of corruption they publish! The corruption that had been practiced for thirty years these people did it boldly, arrogantly and recklessly in one year.
In the months of the revolution and its first year a single account has not been published and the proverb says, "tip of the iceberg".
How do you view the transitional period that Yemen is going through?
the transitional period lacks security, the murder is widespread, arms are supplied, assassinations multiply, the wealth of the nation is plundered, corruption increases arrogantly and recklessly, injustice is growing and widespread, the parties are sharing the public office, the law is not being implemented, and civil life is still absent. These gloomy scenes lead only to a frightening and darker future unless these scenes and accumulations, which lead to an uncertain and possibly catastrophic future, are ceased.
What do you think of the current percentage of the distribution of seats in the national dialogue?
The allocation of seats with such ratios and in such a way, relying on political deals behind the scenes, circumventing the revolution, the state and the people, the great absenteeism of the independents and authorizing members of the parties to select the independents and speak on their behalf, emptying the civic and democratic standards from their implications , all these circumstances will lead Yemen to unfair and even to an uncertain future..
What do you think about the representation of the South as 50% and the north as 50%?
I am with this opinion because the south could be an important civic supporter towards the change in Yemen, but it must be away from fraud and circumvention that are practiced by some political parties and forces, which want to bring the south back to the yard of the tribe, regionalism and underdevelopment.
Will you participate in the national dialogue?
I do not think I will participate because I have not seen anything on the ground encouraging me to participate yet.
How do you evaluate the performance of the Reconciliation Government?
In general, it is very bad. Actually,there are few ministers, who have achieved some success and some of them are still trying. However, the overall performance of the government as a whole is very bad.
The failure of the Reconciliation Government is only a reflection of the failure of the initiative and its local partners and the absence of a national coherent and well-defined project in the performance of the parties of the "Gulf initiative."
What are your expectations of the results of the national dialogue?
As long as this dialogue is based on political deals, and as long as the concrete setting up is absent, and because the former powerful forces reproduce themselves and are preparing to create and to impose the outputs of the dialogue and the future options, the results will be disappointing. Introductions show results. So, good introductions must be established to produce good results..