Yemen: Saleh’s 33-year rule ends with party-benefiting vote, Bloomberg Business week (2012)
Yemenis vote today 21 Feb, in a presidential election that formally ends the 33-year rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time, with about 12 million eligible voters. Turnout may be low because of the sole candidate and boycott calls by secessionists in the south and Houthi rebels in the north. More than 100,000 soldiers have been deployed to provide security. Troops clashed yesterday with members of the separatist Southern Movement in Shabwa province after the militants stormed the elections commission office.
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