Yemen Head of state
Mahdi al-Mashat
مهدي المشاطPresident of the Supreme Political Council in Sana'a — the de facto head of state in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, where roughly 70% of the population lives.
- Country
- Yemen
- Party
- Ansar Allah (Houthis)
- Role
- Head of state
Inherited position
Until Mahdi al-Mashat is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Other politicians in Ansar Allah (Houthis)
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech English 2024-09-20 Mahdi al-Mashat (President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council; de facto head of state in Sanaa) — statement to Xinhua, 20 Sep 2024: the Houthi conditions for peace — paying salaries, opening Yemen's airports and ports, releasing all prisoners, compensation/reparations, and the complete withdrawal of all foreign powers from Yemen.
The only solution to achieve peace is ... paying the salaries of Yemenis, opening Yemen's airports and ports, and releasing all prisoners. Among the requirements of peace are also the payment of compensation, redress…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mahdi al-Mashat [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mashat-ye
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mahdi al-Mashat." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mashat-ye.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-mashat-ye,
title = {{Mahdi al-Mashat}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mashat-ye},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.