People's Vanguard Party (South Yemen)

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The People's Vanguard Party was a Ba'athist political party in South Yemen.^[1] It was aligned with the Syrian-based Ba'ath Party.^[2] Abdallah Badhib was the general secretary of the party. Badhib was appointed Minister of Education in December 1969.^[3] IThe party was one of two non-National Front parties tolerated during the early 1970s. In October 1975 it joined the NF-dominated United Political Organization (which evolved into the Yemeni Socialist Party in 1978).^[1] The merger was ratified by the third PVP congress held in August 1975.^[4]

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