Yemen president to step down
Saturday October 08, 2011 09:55:14 PM,
IANS
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Sana'a: Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh Saturday said he will leave power in
the coming days, Xinhua reported.
In a speech, addressed to a gathering of high-ranking
parliamentary officials in Sana'a and aired on state television,
Saleh said: "I always reject power and I will continue to reject
it, and I will leave power in the coming days."
Yemen has been gripped by a more than eight-month-long political
crisis since the eruption of protests in late January to demand an
immediate end to Saleh's 33-year-old rule.
Protesters demand that Saleh end his three-decade-long rule
because of his perceived lack of democratic reforms, alleged
widespread corruption and human rights abuses carried out by him
and his allies.
On May 18, 2011, Saleh agreed to sign a deal with opposition
groups, stipulating that he would resign within a month. On May
23, Saleh refused to sign the agreement, leading to renewed
protests and the withdrawal of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
from mediation efforts in Yemen.
Born in 1942, Ali Abdullah Saleh is the first President of the
Republic of Yemen. He previously served as President of the Yemen
Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 1978 until 1990, at which time he
assumed the office of chairman of the Presidential Council of a
post-unification Yemen.
He is the longest-serving president of Yemen, ruling since 1978.
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