On Sunday, Saudi Arabia expelled a member of the Saudi-led coalition’s Presidential Leadership Council in Southern Yemen.
According to media sources, the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed al-Jaber, told Faraj al-Bahsani that he was undesirable on the territory of the kingdom.
Al-Bahsani had appeared earlier in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after failing to lead a coup against the Hadhrami Conference in Saudi Arabia.
The motivation for Al-Bahsani’s expulsion was not known; whether it was part of the Saudi arrangements to celebrate the declaration of Hadhramaut as a region or because he joined the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC ) after he was appointed deputy chairman of the council.
It is noteworthy that Al-Bahsani rejected directives of the Saudi monarchy to resume participation in the meetings of the Presidential Council in Riyadh. He continued to boycott the Council in protest against Saudi Arabia failing to militarily and administratively support him in Hadhramaut.
Saudi Arabia has also recently begun to empower the governor of the coalition in Hadhramaut, Mabkhout bin Madi. Saudi has chosen Madi as a representative of the oil-rich governorate when coordinating meetings with ambassadors of regional and international countries.
