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| Yemen President's son has the right to stand for Presidential elections after his father steps down, says Opposition figure |
| 2011-10-21 |
| [Yemen Observer] The Yemeni conflicting parties reached a deadlock and are now waiting for a resolution from the UN Security Council which is expected today, said a senior opposition figure Wednesday. "The main reason of the deadlock was the disagreement on how to re-structure and neutralize the army before any early presidential elections," said Dr. Mohammed Al Mutawakel, Secretary General of the Popular Forces Party, and former rotating chairman of the supreme council of the opposition coalition. Al Mutawakel said President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... will not stand for the coming elections because his constitutional term is the last but his son Ahmed or any one else have all the right to stand for the elections. "There is no accused until proved guilty, so Ahmed Ali, and Ali Muhsen, and Hamid Al Ahmar, and Ali Salem Al Baidh, and Haidar Al Attas, and Ali Nasser , all those have the right to stand for Presidential elections," said Al Mutawakel. Al Qaeda and rustics threatened to retaliate for the US drone attacks recently implemented in Yemen where the 9-month long political crisis remains unsolved. The UN Security Council is expected this week to issue a resolution binding the conflicting parties to stop hostilities and President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... to transfer the power according to an internationally backed deal brokered by the Saudi-led six nations of the Arabian Gulf. President Saleh,however, insists that the power must be transferred only through early elections in which he is not participating nor anyone of his family members. Or the army will take the final decision as Saleh said earlier this week in a meeting with his military and security commanders. |
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