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February 11th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Yemen’s Shia Houthi fighters have rejected a plan that would transform the Arab country into a state of six regions, arguing that the proposal falls short of an equal distribution of wealth.
“We have rejected it because it divides Yemen into poor and wealthy regions,” Mohammed al-Bakheiti, a member of the Houthi group Ansarullah, said on Tuesday.
The agreement on establishing the six-region federation was made at a Monday meeting of a panel headed by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and included representatives of Yemen’s main parties in the capital, Sana’a.
The federalism plan is to be included in the new constitution of Yemen, and will be put to a referendum within a year.
Under the plan, the northern province of Sa’ada, which is the bastion of Houthi fighters, will be part of the Azal region – a zone that has no significant natural resources or access to sea.
Politicians in southern Yemen are opposed to the agreement. They say four provinces in the north would have more power than the two in the south.
The idea of creating a federal system has been a part of Yemen’s political transition, as the country is still reeling from the popular uprising, which forced longtime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office in February 2012.
North and South Yemen unified in 1990 after the southern government collapsed. However, four years later, the south tried to break away and this led to a civil war. The conflict ended with northern troops taking control of the south after winning the war.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s southern residents complain that they have been economically and politically marginalized by the central government in Sana’a.
The Southern Movement also calls for autonomy or the complete independence of the south.
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