58133920 Yemeni President and the opposition agreed to hold elections
Presidential elections in Yemen will be held no later than three months, Reuters reported on Monday, August 29. On election at such times and told news agency sources in political circles in Yemen, agreed to the opposition and head of the country, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Before the election, according to the interlocutor of the agency, the duties of the president will continue to serve Mansour Hadi Abduraba. On Monday, the official news agency issued a statement of the Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in which, inter alia, states that "universal, direct and fair presidential elections will be held as soon as possible." About what time period in question, in a statement Saleh did not specify. In Yemen, from January 2011, there were mass anti-government demonstrations in which the participants demanded the resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power unchallenged since 1978. June 3 President Saleh was severely wounded in the shelling of his residence in the capital of Yemen. The day after the attack on the plane Saleh was taken for treatment in Saudi Arabia, where he is already almost four months. At the time of treatment as acting president of Yemen has been appointed vice president Mansour Hadi Abduraba. After the outbreak of mass protests Saleh several times declared its intention to resign as president but never left. Representatives of the opposition after Saleh went for treatment in Saudi Arabia, said they would not allow him to return to Yemen. Saleh, in turn, said that he would return home as soon as possible, but did not specify exactly when this will happen.
