Almotamar.net - Head of the Information Office at the General People's Congress GPC Tareq al-Shamy advised in a statement those who call in their initiatives that President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains president for life, to abandon ideas of extremism, inflexibility and exaggeration. He asked them to direct their initiatives to and advices to their partisan leaderships to work on respecting the constitution and the law and to be keen on holding the election right in its constitutional date regardless of participation or boycotting it by those parties and to keep away from falsifying the citizens' awareness.
Al-Shamy added as for President Ali Abdullah Saleh he has expressed his disinterest in presidency and assumption of responsibility of leadership in the GPC and all sons of the Yemeni people know that. The Yemenis view the President as safety valve for the homeland and its unity and stability. The Yemenis see in him the leader who created a political revolution for his people and homeland and has achieved it by virtue of cooperation by the entire people who have been his supporters in all events that Yemen witnessed. Al-Shamy said he is mistaken who thinks that such initiatives would receive liking from the President Saleh.
The President is apathetic to power: al-Shamy
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