Sunday, April 24, 2011

Salé hand over power in exchange for immunity

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, agreed to a proposal to give Arab mediators in 30 days and hand over power to his deputy provided immunity from prosecution, in a radical change of opinion in the ruling for 32 years in power. A coalition of seven opposition parties, which do not represent the hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding the deposition of Salé, said he also accepted the plan but with reservations.

Even if the disagreements are overcome, it is unknown for now whether the many different groups of protesters off the streets accepted right away. Opponents held the largest demonstration in two months, which filled a five-lane avenue in the capital with hundreds of thousands of participants.

Government forces and supporters of Salé harshly attacked the protests, in a crackdown that has left at least 130 people dead and caused the president's key allies leave and join the protesters. The antigovernment movement against poverty and corruption that opponents attribute to the Government of Salé, came after popular uprisings that overthrew the rulers of Tunisia and Egypt.

The Gulf Cooperation Council, made up of five influential countries Saudi Arabia, has managed the end of the crisis in Yemen, an impoverished nation on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Under the new mediation project, the Parliament of Yemen Salé grant legal protection to not prosecuted.

The President would deliver his resignation to lawmakers in 30 days and would leave the power to Vice President, who would call new presidential elections two months later. Although Saleh has the constitutional right to remain in power, is willing to leave the presidency in exchange for immunity for himself, his family and close associates.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen, according to U.S. diplomatic sources, he long for Washington to accept the resignation in a maneuver to be assured that their children-who occupy key positions in security and politics, and he will not be processed. Yemeni President requested Saudi mediation for weeks, but diplomatic sources have told Gulf to Riyadh prompted him to end concerns about deteriorating security in southern neighbor after Salé not act in an internal agreement with U.S.

officials on its output. Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil exporter in the world, is the main financier of the Yemeni government as well as many Yemeni tribes on its border. The countries of the region are convinced that Salé was an obstacle to stability in a country dominated by a navigation path that pass daily by three million barrels of oil.

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