The war first and the siege second imposed on Taiz a special lifestyle stemming from the nature of the reality of the war on it, which turned it into ruins and a ghost town after death had filled its neighborhoods and cruelly devoured its residents; so it was abandoned and became almost empty.

What the local authority is doing, starting with Governor Nabil Shamsan and down to the smallest employee, to prove their worthiness before the Chairman of the Leadership Council, indicates a huge imbalance in the structure of the local authority, its value system, and its legal and constitutional duties.