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Fri, 2012-02-10 03:25
Separatists seeking to revive a southern socialist state that Saleh united with the north in 1990 have been demonstrating against the vote, scheduled for Feb. 21, and northern rebels have said they will also not take part. The election is part of a plan hammered out by Yemen’s Gulf neighbors to end a year of political upheaval in the impoverished state.
Some southerners have been burning their voting cards in protest at the election, in which Yemen’s acting leader Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is the sole candidate.
Saleh is currently in the United States receiving medical treatment for wounds inflicted during an assassination attempt on him last year, but has said he will return home for the vote, shedding doubt on his commitment to leave office.
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