30 and clarified before, one of the goals of the party to run itself as a posi­tive democratic institution has yet to be proved. 3.2.2. Party Structure ^K=jÉãÄÉêëÜáé= Let us now discuss the religious, regional, gender and age composition of the party. The GPC encompasses a wide range of people, including members of all ages and from all tribes, religious sects, regions of the country, and including significant numbers of both men and women, as well as intellectuals. One of the growing and most recent features of the party is to hunt to recruit the best of the people in the scene. It has been quite successful up to now. Considering the real influence, popular support(keeping ideology far away from statistics) it can be said that the GPC has a majority in al­most every area of the country, it is stronger in some regions than in others. The GPC is relatively weaker in the Hadramaut Valley(south, east), Taiz governorate(north, midlands), Aden and its surrounding areas, and the far northern governorates(Marib and Al-Jouf). In Had­ramaut, for example, one of the states of the former PDRY, the Islah Party managed to take advantage of the void left by the YSP’s 1997 boycott of parliamentary elections, taking advantage of the conservative religious nature comprised of Shaif’i Muslims. Islah Party was more successful than the GPC in attracting YSP supporters in this region as well. Likewise, in term of quality and quantity, the GPC does not have a strong foothold in the Taiz governorate 1 . The Taiz region, and the Al­Hujariah group in particular, have long been known as the wellspring of Yemeni ideological thought and political movements. The Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood, the National Front, and the Yemeni wings of the Nasserite Unionist and the Ba’ath parties all emerged from Al­Hujariah. Following this tradition, the Islah Party and the other smaller 1 Statistics is not available because the representatives are silent on this issue.