SANA .- The president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for 32 years, announced he will not seek re-election and made other concessions to the opposition, which nevertheless maintained their call to protest against the president today. Following demonstrations in Yemen inspired by popular protests in Tunisia and Egypt, the president proposed forming a "government of national unity", said postponing the legislative elections scheduled for April 27, seriously questioned by the opposition, and wants before the elections are carried out political reforms.
"Government will not hereditary or life presidency," said Saleh, whose current term ends in 2013, during a special session of Parliament and the Majlis Al Shura (consultative council), at a time when opposition demonstrations prepared for a new "day anger "today. Saleh, re-elected for seven years in 2006, also urged the opposition parties, gathered in the "Joint Forum" to "stop street protests" and resume dialogue on political reforms, interrupted when the authorities decided to organize legislative elections on 27 April.
Thousands of Yemenis inspired by popular protests in Tunisia and Egypt had taken to the streets on Thursday 27 January to demand the resignation of Saleh, in power since 1978, after validating its mandate for universal suffrage in 1999 and reelected in 2006 . That day, protesters chanted at several points in the capital that former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali "went after 20 years in Yemen and 30 years are enough for us," referring to Aristide's flight from Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, Jan.
14, after 23 years in power. 
"Government will not hereditary or life presidency," said Saleh, whose current term ends in 2013, during a special session of Parliament and the Majlis Al Shura (consultative council), at a time when opposition demonstrations prepared for a new "day anger "today. Saleh, re-elected for seven years in 2006, also urged the opposition parties, gathered in the "Joint Forum" to "stop street protests" and resume dialogue on political reforms, interrupted when the authorities decided to organize legislative elections on 27 April.
Thousands of Yemenis inspired by popular protests in Tunisia and Egypt had taken to the streets on Thursday 27 January to demand the resignation of Saleh, in power since 1978, after validating its mandate for universal suffrage in 1999 and reelected in 2006 . That day, protesters chanted at several points in the capital that former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali "went after 20 years in Yemen and 30 years are enough for us," referring to Aristide's flight from Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, Jan.
14, after 23 years in power.
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