24 takes great pains and avoids exaggeration or convoluted linguistic de­vices. The creativity and simplicity of the Q& A style allows the users to collectively reach their final goal of assessing an authority, a state or even a situation through the appropriate socio-political lenses. And most recently, it has been encouraged and further used by international political NGOs(NDI, IDEA, etc.), western embassies, government’s auditing institution etc. The study follows the basic constructive elements of any study: intro­duction, body and an end. The introduction provides a brief profile of Yemen and its contemporary political life, as it is needed to prepare the readers. The body explores each party structure individually, as it is very important to get some details and analytical arguments, and con­cludes with a sub-conclusion about each to deepen and clarify the ar­gument. The end includes a general assessment and evaluation of all parties, as it is important to summarise while coming to the final con­clusion and finding of the study. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the descriptive and prescriptive in­formation and statistics are based on the best-known and available or published documents up to the end of the year 2000. 3.2. General People’s Congress(GPC) 3.2.1. General Context = ^K=m~êíó=eáëíçêó= The General People’s Congress(GPC) was founded in the northern Yemen Arab Republic(YAR) on August 24, 1982. During that time the country was passing through a period of national upheaval and rebel­lions. In the wake of rebellions in 1977 and 1979 Presidents Al-Hamdi and Al- Ghashmi were already been assassinated. After them, President Ali Abdullah Saleh came to power in July 1979. The same rebellion and violence continued during the first two years of President Saleh’s regime. The National Front, an insurgency force, increased its pressure