The UAE-backed Sourthern Transitional Council STC showed its dissatisfaction with the presidential decree that changed Rajeh Bakrit, the former governor of Mahrah.
The Vice-President of the STC, Hani bin Brik, described the presidential move as a violation of the Riyadh agreement.
Bin Brik considered the decree as a stupid and hasty step, claiming that the Islah party was behind this decision to “politicize the conflict, the failure and the corruption in Almahara.”