[2] Like the Islamist Hizb al-Haqq, it has been founded by Sayyids, which are members of the traditional elite of the country's north who claimed descent from the family of Muhammad.
During his period in Egypt, he had contact with intellectuals such as the Islamist thinker Sayyid Qutb, the liberal trade unionist Gamal al-Banna and the Islamic modernist Mohammed al-Ghazali, which influenced his worldview.
[1] Muhammad Abdurrahman ar-Ruba'i, the party's next general secretary, died on 8 June 2019 after a long time of illness.
The party's leader al-Wazir was strongly influenced by Islamic modernist as well as trade unionist thinkers and advocated for a modernization of Zaydi doctrine.
It supports the national struggle against the Houthis and calls for the reestablishment of legitimacy, as well as the creation of a federal democratic state.