SANA'A: Several local Yemeni newspapers have on Monday widely-attributed former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's entrance to the Presidential Palace by one of its many back doors as proof that the veteran politician was still indeed ruling the country from the shadows. According to sources, Saleh would have held a private meeting with loyalists amongst who were powerful sheikhs, military high ranking officers and members of the General People's Congress, while President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi was receiving a few meters away several foreign delegations. This new “meddling” as it is perceived by many, came only days after President Saleh addressed a crowd of ruling party youth leaders in al-Saleh Mosque is his capacity of leaders of the GPC. Already, al-Islah politicians are crying out in anger, warning that more violations of the GCC brokered power-transfer agreement would not be tolerated, wildly waving the cancellation of Saleh's immunity blanket as a threat. “Saleh is still trying to control the situation through his network of loyalists, this cannot go on. We will take severe sanctions against the man if he continues to defy the rule of law. Hadi is the President now, not him. Nor does he has a place amongst politicians,” said AbdulWahab al-Ansi, al-Islah's spokesperson. Other politicians for the JMP warned that more this interventionist campaign would lead to more chaos as the Youth they foretell was bound to react to such an outright provocation. This new bout of verbal attack in between the JMP and the ruling party underscores deep dissensions within the government as cracks appears in the coalition over the military restructuring. While Saleh's loyalists and interestingly part of the Youth Independent argue that President Hadi should hold off the appointment of new leaders until after the country dealt with al-Qaeda growing threat, the JMP and most predominantly al-Islah is calling for the immediate departure from their posts of Ahmed Ali Saleh, the Head of the Republican guards and Special Forces and Yehia Mohamed Saleh, the Head of the Central Security Forces as both are respectively Saleh' son and nephew. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/iecnn Tags: In Shadows, Saleh, Still, Yemen Section: International, Latest News, Op-ed, Yemen
