http://www.almotamar.net صحيفة إلكترونية يومية تصدر عن حزب المؤتمر الشعبي العام (اليمن) http://www.almotamar.net/7593.htm 2010-07-16 The Yemeni Vice-President , the secretary General of the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) party Abid Rabeh Mansour Hadi has said Friday that the 17th of July 1978 would remain one of the immortal days in the history of Yemen . On that day president Ali Abdullah Saleh was elected President of the Republic for the first in the history of the people of Yemen in a democratic way. The process registered on that day the first process of peaceful transfer of power.