الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني
Supreme People's Council (SPC) was the legislature of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). According to the 1970 Constitution legislative power was vested the unicameral Supreme People's Council, which consisted of 111 elected members. An amended version of the 1970 constitution was approved by the SPC in October of 1978. Most significantly, it recognized the 'leader role' of the YSP in the administration of the state. It defined the role of the YSP as follows: "The Yemeni Socialist Party, armed with the theory of scientific socialism, is the leader and guide of the society and of the State. It shall define the general horizon for development of the society and the line of the State's domestic and foreign policy. The Yemeni Socialist Party shall lead the struggle of the people and their mass organizations towards the absolute victory of the Yemeni revolution's strategy and the achievement of the tasks of the national democratic revolution through socialist construction."