YEMEN: Al-Baidani to Run For President
The Yemen Times reports:
The Former Deputy President Dr. Abdulrhman Al-Baidani has declared that he will run the next presidential election conditional if President Ali Abdullah Saleh would not seek a new mandate. In his statement, Al-Baidani promised intense reforms in order to “alleviate the sufferings of the people and start real economic development and renaissanceâ€.
In a statement he said: “Corruption has spread and inverted the interests towards achieving progress and development. We have become a nation dependent on foreign aid, loans and grants, while the wealth of the current corrupted officials disappears abroad in overseas banks, the current regime left the Yemeni people eating the crumples from the garbage, that is if hungry stray dogs and cats left them any.†Al-Baidani referred that the announcement of President Saleh not to seek a new mandate has paved the way for the peaceful handover of power, an aspiration blocked by constitutional provisions that limit nomination for the presidency to the candidate of ruling party. The fifth article in the constitution stipulates handover of power only in word, but factually presidency is limited to the current ruling party.
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