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The Reality of the South and State-Building in Light of Challenges

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The South today represents a just cause with historical and political roots, based on a popular identity, prior international experience, and clear demands for independence and the restoration of the state. With attempts at distortion, most of the South's components and leaders, represented by the Southern Transitional Council, are demonstrating a growing political awareness amid a sensitive national path.

Despite attempts by the South's opponents to shuffle the cards through rumors and propaganda campaigns, the reality on the ground and politically reveals that the Southerners today are more committed to their goal, realizing that state-building must end a past of exclusion or chaos and establish a genuine peace based on internal partnership and international recognition.

Civil and Institutional: The South's orientation toward a civil state is not subject to external dictates or international pressures. Rather, it stems from a popular and leadership conviction that the state project must be based on law and governance, a process already underway in the security and civil institutions. This transformation does not mean perfection, but it demonstrates a serious move toward institutional stability.

 Dialogue with Other Forces: While legitimate caution is warranted regarding dealing with other Yemeni forces, the South is adopting a realistic stance:

The Houthis: They are viewed as an expansionist party that does not respect geographical specificities or political components. Dialogue with them is futile unless it includes clear guarantees of respect for the will of the people of the South.

The Muslim Brotherhood: They are viewed as a party with ties to cross-border projects, through which many violations, such as terrorist activities, have been committed in the South, especially after 2015. Therefore, dealing with them is governed by caution, to preserve security, stability and cohesion. Furthermore, both the Houthis and the Brotherhood are considered Yemeni forces established in the North, not the South.

As for international presence and openness, despite the occasional allusion to isolation, the South has not adopted an isolationist approach. On the contrary, it has opened offices in several European countries and officially launched the Southern Transitional Council's mission in Washington. These moves confirm that the South is working towards external openness and diplomatic communication, which is a positive indicator. 

Democracy and democratic leadership in the South are not absent, but they are being redefined to suit the difficult political reality. As several international analyses have pointed out, democracy today is no longer always a tool for the benefit of the people. Rather, in some contexts, it has become a tool for external pressure or a means of dismantling national fronts.

In this context, the South is adopting a flexible democratic model, realizing that pluralism does not mean chaos, and that stable institutions cannot be built without a unified leadership that expresses the popular will. However, the political experience led by the Southern Transitional Council does not demonstrate an exclusionary approach; quite the contrary:

The Council includes more than 38 southern political components, and civil society organizations of various orientations.

It launched the "Southern Dialogue" initiative, which included former southern opposition figures, political parties and leaders.

STC has not been recorded that it has pursued a policy of systematic exclusion of groups that disagree with it, with the exception of forces that have been actively involved in terrorist acts, violence, or sabotage, and those affiliated or funded by N. Yemen forces.

Moreover, federalism and internal diversity also mean that the South, represented by its political leadership in the Southern Transitional Council, is adopting a federal system as a step to avoid some of the mistakes of the previous southern state (PDRY). From here, it becomes more clear that the South is building a modern southern state, which requires a fair reading that strengthens its support, not a reading issued by non-neutral parties that distort reality and attempt to obscure the truth.