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Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح) (born March 21, 1942) is the current President of Yemen. He was President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 1978 to 1990 and became president of the new merged state of Yemen in 1990. He became Yemen's first directly elected president in 1999, winning more than 96% of the vote, but the main opposition socialist party was barred from standing a candidate. The other candidate was also a member of Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party but was standing as an independent. The government-dominated parliament did not allow the other 28 applicants to stand.

A referendum in February 2001 extended the presidential term from five to seven years, meaning that Saleh next faces re-election in 2006.

Saleh announced in July 2005 that he would not be standing as a candidate in the next presidential elections, scheduled for September 2006. The announcement came during the 27th anniversary celebrations of his term in office as President of Yemen. However, in June 2006 Saleh reversed himself and accepted his nomination as the presidential candidate of the GPC.

See also

References

  1. "Freedom in the World - Yemen (2002)", Freedom House.
  2. "Yemen leader rules himself out of polls", Aljazeera.net, July 17, 2005.
  3. "In eleventh-hour reversal, President Saleh announces candidacy", IRIN, June 25, 2006.

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Preceded byAbdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi President of North Yemen
1978–1990 		Succeeded bynone
Preceded bynone President of Yemen
May 22, 1990– 		Succeeded byIncumbent
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