The Emirati newspaper Al Arabiya said that Marib Governorate will be an alternative to the temporary capital, Aden, to lead the Presidential Council following growing disagreements with the Transitional Council.

The newspaper confirmed the growing differences between the leadership of the Transitional Council and the leadership of the legitimate government and the Presidential Council in Yemen.

The newspaper said in its Wednesday issue that the visit of the Chairman of the Leadership Council to Marib came in the midst of escalating disputes within the council, which includes representatives of several sects, including the Southern Transitional Council, the main lever of the project to restore the southern state.

Recently, the hidden differences between the Transitional Council and the legitimate government headed by Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak came to light, through the Council’s sharp criticism of the government, describing the way it manages the services file in Aden and the southern regions as absurd.

The transitional council spoke in a recent statement about “signs of clear government failure in managing the services file, the features of which began to appear with the onset of summer.”

He stressed “the need for the Presidential Leadership Council to have firm and decisive measures to stop the ongoing tampering with this file, and to curb the forces that are trying to exploit the suffering of citizens for political blackmail.”

But this criticism of Ben Mubarak’s government represented only the declared part of larger disagreements over more fundamental issues, including President Al-Alimi’s perspective on the status of the armed forces and the necessity of unifying them with their various factions under his command, which is something rejected by the Southern Transitional Council, which is not prepared under any circumstances to abandon the forces. affiliated with him and any party, regardless of his rank on the ladder of responsibility.

Among the controversial issues is also the issue of appointments to government positions, including diplomatic positions, which the Southern Transitional Council believes are made unilaterally and in violation of the principle of partnership and parity on which the formation of the Presidential Leadership Council was based.