SANAA, Yemen (MCT) — Yemen’s new prime minister said Sunday that the ruling party and the country’s largest opposition coalition would nominate the country’s current vice president to be their candidate in the upcoming election to pick a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who agreed last week to step down after 33 years in power.
The decision by the ruling General People’s Congress Party and the opposition coalition, the Joint Meeting Parties or JMP, to name Vice President Abed Rabbo Masour Hadi as their consensus candidate will cement Hadi’s hold on power. Hadi assumed Saleh’s authority last week under the deal that called for the formation of a new national unity government until presidential elections could be held.
