The Yemeni Socialist Party has denied media reports that it plans to leave the coalition of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP).
The mouthpiece of the party, the Aleshteraki website, quoted Yahya Mansour Abu Osba as saying: "Such reports were mere rumors that aim to confuse the JMP which was founded to last".
"The Socialist Party is a one of the main founders and very interested in developing the coalition in line with circumstances and required needs," said Abu Osba, who is a member within the party's central committee.
"The coalition should depend on suitably developed visions including those to include more national forces to continue to exist," he added.
The JMP was founded in 2003 by the Socialist Party, the Islah Party, the Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation, the Hak Party, the September Democratic Organization and the Popular Forces Union Party.
This coalition was the main opposition bloc in Yemen before and during 2011. After mass protests erupted in 2011, and when the Gulf Initiative was revealed, it signed it with the General People's Congress, the former ruling party.