UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, the very man who oversaw and helped shape Yemen political transition of power by ushering out former President Ali Abdullah Saleh from the the presidency in 2011 said in a television interview that the former president could in all legality run in the next presidential elections in 2014.
"There is no text which requires former President Saleh to give up the leadership of the General People's Congress ...
There is nothing that could prevent him to run in the next presidential elections or support the his son's candidacy" noted the dignitary, confirming the fears of many political activists.
While revolutionaries assumed that the GCC brokered power transition agreement provisioned for former President Saleh to stay away from the corridor of powers for the rest of his natural life in exchange for political and judicial immunity, it seems now that indeed it did not and instead only arrange for the veteran politician's immediate resignation from the presidency.
Several political analysts have often argue that if former President Saleh was so fiercely determined to maintain his presidency over the General People's Congress, it was because he was preparing to usher his son, Gen. Ahmed Ali Saleh, the former Commander in Chief of the Republican Guards as Yemen's next presidential candidate, fulfilling his political legacy ambition.
So while former President Saleh might not be ruling over Yemen as he previously did, a comeback is something not as far fetch as activists and politicians of the opposition made it out to be. Nothing in the constitution or any other piece of legislation could in truce prevent former President Saleh to go ahead with his plan, introduce his political heir, Gen. Ahmed Ali Saleh as Yemen's next president.
Earlier this year at a celebration held at former President Saleh's residence in the capital, Sana'a, Gen. Yehia Mohammed Saleh, the former Commander in Chief of the Central Security Forces foretold the GPC was preparing its comeback to power.
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