Yemeni Salafists...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
have said they would form a political party that would take part in the political process and empower women, a high-ranking Salafi leader, Aqeel Al-Maqtari said.
In comments to the Arabic-Speaking London-based Alsharaq Al-Awsat newspaper, Almaqtari stressed that women would participate in this new party.
"Women will have rights to vote and nomination," he added. "There were inaccurate opinions spread among the Salafi groups regarding political work, as it was thought that elections contradict some Sharaia laws, but this is not correct."
"With the eruption of the Arab Spring revolution, the fall of dictatorships and the corrupt regimes, Salafisits could present their revised studies and opinions."
He said Salifists abhor dictators and that was behind their engagement in the political process.
On the other hand, Yemen's Houthi-led Shiite groups announced last month that they formed a political party, Al-Omah Party, to play a role in the country's new political arena. The party is led by a Shiite holy man, Mohammed Miftah.
Since the protests erupted in Yemen in late January 2011, Houthi rebels are trying to expand their control over the northern provinces of Saada, Amran and Hajja.
Houthis had imposed a serious food and security blockade on students and people of a hard-liner Salafi-run Islamic school, Dar-al-Hadith , and its neighboring areas in Damaj town.
They engaged an intermittent war against the government from 2004 until a truce was reached in 2010.
In lately 2010, the Yemeni government and the Shiite group signed an agreement in Doha to strengthen a fragile cease-fire to end the sporadic battles since 2004, but the rebels' festivities with local rustics and Sunni supporters are still rocking the region.