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Arabia
Saleh demands 50 percent representation in dialogue
2012-11-27
[Yemen Post] The former Yemeni 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...
told the UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar that the General People Congress will not accept less than 50 percent representation in the National Dialogue Conference, a Yemeni newspaper, Akhbar Alyawam, reported.

The newspaper said that representatives of the GPC met on Sunday with Saleh and he ordered them to inform Benomar that they refuse representation of less than 50 percent.

Members of the Technical Dialogue Committee had agreed to mandate Benomar to set the representation percentages of those who will take part in the dialogue.

Yemeni politicians accuse Saleh of attempting to impede the political settlement, and provoke tensions.

Media sources affirmed that Saleh attacked the deputy chairman of the GPC Abdul-Karim al-Eryani and accused him of operating to exclude him from the party.

International and regional actors exerted efforts to persuade Saleh to abandon politics, but Saleh is still determined to involve in politics.

Leaders of the Joint Meeting Parties (the JMP) have stressed that the JMP has a firm stance towards Saleh's abandonment of politics, pointing out that Saleh was granted the immunity in return for giving up politics.

The JMP frequently charge Saleh with intervention in tasks of the interim government and seeking to disrupt its performances.

Yemeni senior politicians including Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party Yaseen Saeed Noaman and Secretary General of the Nasserist Unionist People's Organization Sultan al-Atwani demanded Salehto leave Yemen

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