Outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
will return to Yemen to vote in the early presidential elections due to be held on February 21, the state-run 26 September newspaper said on Tuesday.
The newspaper said Saleh received a number of Yemenis at his residence in New York, pointing out that Saleh's health becomes better and he would be in Yemen before the polls date.
It further said Saleh thanked all officials, military and security commanders, and tribal leaders who contacted him to reassure his health.
The remarks of Saleh,s return came after a protester threw his shoe at Saleh, outside a hotel on Central Park South.
Yemeni protesters criticized Saleh's presence in the United States in which he receives treatment for injuries he suffered when a bomb went
kaboom!in the mosque of the presidential palace last June.
Yemeni analysts said the reports stated about the return of Saleh was a response to a recent address of Vice President Abdu Rabu Masour Hadi in which he did not mention Saleh.
Vice President launched on Tuesday his electoral campaign and delivered a speech in which he did not commend Saleh as he used to do in previous addresses. Following the address, news headlines of Yemeni media outlets focused on Hadi's ignorance to Saleh.
In the launch ceremony attended by leaders of Yemeni parties, officials and foreign diplomats, Hadi praised the Yemeni protesters who took to streets to demand the ouster of Saleh.
Hadi warned of challenges Yemen faces, indicating that he would do best to overcome. "People are no longer able to be patient over the suffering that has lasted longer that it should have," the vice president said.