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| foundation = 24 August 1982
| headquarters = [[Sana'a]], [[Yemen]]
| ideology = [[Yemen]]i [[nationalism]]<br />[[Arab nationalism]]<br />[[Big tent]]<ref name="Yemen Dict 134">{{cite book |last=Burrowes |first=Robert D. |date= |title=Historical Dictionary of Yemen |url= |location= |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn= |accessdate= |year=2010 |page=134}}</ref>
| position = [[Centrism|Centre]]<ref name="Yemen Dict 111">Burrowes, p111</ref>
| international = ''None''
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==History==
The party was established on 24 August 1982 in [[Sana'a]], [[North Yemen]], by President [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]],<ref name=herzan2003/><ref name="leader dies"/> becoming an umbrella organisation that sought to represent all political interests.<ref name=FT>Frank Tachau (1994) ''Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa'', Greenwood Press, p633</ref> Following [[Yemeni unification]] in 1990, and with Saleh continuing as president of the united country, it emerged as the largest party in the [[1993 Yemeni parliamentary election
Saleh was re-elected as President in the first direct [[1999 Yemeni presidential election
The two factions were at war with each other until Saleh attempted to overthrow the Houthis. This power grab failed, however, and the former president as well as party secretary general Aref al-Zouka were killed in the [[Battle of Sanaʽa (2017)|Battle of Sana'a]] of late 2017. Following Ali Abdullah Saleh's death, the GPC fractured further, with a large part of the former Saleh followers pledging allegiance to the Houthis. This pro-Houthi part of the GPC continued to support the rebel government in Sana'a, and elected [[Sadeq Ameen Abu Rass]] as new GPC chairman. One member of the pro-Houthi faction explained that "Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by the Houthis. If we follow his direction and resist the Houthis, we will meet the same end as Saleh. So we prefer to support the strongest force on the ground."<ref name="leader dies"/>
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!Result
|-
|[[1999 Yemeni presidential election
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|3,584,399
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|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
|[[2006 Yemeni presidential election
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|4,149,673
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|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
|[[2012 Yemeni presidential election
|[[Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi]]
|6,621,921
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!+/–
|-
|[[1993 Yemeni parliamentary election
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|640,523
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|{{increase}} 123
|-
|[[1997 Yemeni parliamentary election
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|1,175,343
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|{{increase}} 64
|-
|[[2003 Yemeni parliamentary election
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|3,429,888
| |||