Yemen Opposition Seeks Formal Declaration That Saleh Is Out
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Yemen’s opposition is urging the vice president to formally declare he has assumed the duties of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is abroad recovering from injuries, to prevent him from returning to power.
“The president is no longer president,” Mohammed al-Mutawakkil, a member of the main opposition Joint Meeting Parties, said in a telephone interview from the capital, Sana’a. “He’s out of the game.” Al-Mutawakkil said the group will give Vice President Abduraboo Mansur Hadi a few days to “resolve this issue.”