Monday, April 25, 2011

My successor will emerge from the polls, says Saleh

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said it would only hand over power to whoever wins at the polls. "Whom should transfer power? To those who are trying to make a coup? No. We will do through the ballot box, "Saleh said in an interview with the BBC. Last Thursday, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announced a plan to end the crisis which provides that Salé cede power in 30 days vice Rabo Mansour Hadi Abdi.

Following this transfer, the plan states that presidential and parliamentary elections two months later. Saleh told the BBC does not accept that if the elections are carried out in three months, as stated in the GCC. Meanwhile, members of the Organizing Committee of the Youth Revolution of Yemen, who is leading the protests, threatened with a "surge" in their protests if Salé not abandon power without conditions.

Yemen president Ali Abdullah since 1978, the country began protests in mid-February.

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