President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
of forming a national unity government. They said President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
should listen to the voices of protesters and step down.
Mohammed Al-Qubati, front man for the Joint Meetings Parties, told media outlets that "We will not join a national unity government and we support demands of the people who went to the streets to demanded the president to leave.''
"He should respond to the demands of the people and leave power peacefully,'' he added.
Earlier today, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh announced in a meeting held with Yemen's scholars that he is ready to form a unity government with the opposition within hours if they submit names for ministerial posts.
Yemen's opposition called for rallies, the Day of Rage, to be held on Tuesday across Yemen's provinces to mark the deaths of demonstrators.