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Arabia
Saleh tasks nephew to create political party
2012-03-22
[Yemen Post] The former 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...
has tasked his nephew, Yahya Mohammad Abdullah Saleh, to set up a political party after the new President Abdu-Rabu Mansour Hadi managed to draw most leaders of the General People Congress party to his side, political sources said.

The sources told the local Al-Ahali newspaper that Saleh directed Yahya, Commander of the Central Security, to communicate with people and local organizations with the aim of having their support to the party.

They affirmed that most leaders of the GPC aligned with Hadi, pointing out that Hadi will succeed Salah as a head of the party.

"some Yemeni politicians put pressures on Hadi to preside the GPC or resign from" the sources added, hinting that Saleh had asked Hadi to attend a meeting of the GPC and Haid refused.

Separately, media sources affirmed that all the ministers of the interim government who are still loyal to Saleh withdrew from a cabinet session on Tuesday in protest at remarks of Prime Minister Mohmmad Salem Basindiwa in which he attacked Saleh.

The withdrawal of the ministers came simultaneously with a media campaign launched against Basindiwa after he accused Saleh of killing and wounding hundreds of protesters in Sana'a on March 18. Opponents of Saleh said that the withdrawal of the ministers was an attempt of Saleh to impede the government.

For its part, the Joint Meeting Parties alliance that presided the consensus government condemned "the insults" against Basindowa, asking the reasonable people of the GPC to put an end to such campaign.

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