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. ...
announced on Wednesday his acceptance of five points' initiative presented by the opposition coalition, the Joint Meeting Parties, JMP, last month in which aims to protect bloodshed and maintain national achievements.
President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
submitted his approved to the points through a mediator who suggested Saleh accept the raised points which are as follows:
1- Forming a government of national unity to be tasked with setting up a national committee for formulating a new constitution.
2- Making an elections and referendum law based on the proportional representation.
3- Forming a new supreme commission for elections and referendum.
4- Voting on the new constitution and holding parliamentary elections to form the new government, and to also elect a president in the end of 2011.
Informed source said that President Saleh has repeatedly affirmed that Yemen need a smooth, democratic and civil transfer of power in a way preserving stability and safety of the democratic institution.