Deposed Saleh still holding into the reins

The former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh seeks to return the country to what it was before the Gulf initiative. A source in the Joint Meeting Party (JMP) said to Arabstoday: “Saleh is not convinced yet that he is  not in power, and that Abd Rabo Mansour has become the president of Yemen”. The source, who requested anonymity, said in reply to a statement issued from Saleh’s office requesting the departure of 10 opposition figures in exchange for ending the current crisis in the country, said: “The deposed president is exercising great pressures on the new president to meet his requests and conditions that never end, and he should know that we agreed with the political reconciliation in order to save the Yemeni people, and protect Yemen from ruination and destruction, not to give Saleh guarantees and return him to practice the political work”. The source demanded Saleh to keep his hand off the security and the military institutions and let Yemen live in peace. Saleh’s office source had said in its statement that it was agreed that Saleh would step down in exchange for stepping down of some other figures, and now that Saleh has stepped down, so source demands the other part of the agreement be exercised adding that the international community is committed to this, calling for the stepping down of 10 officials among them 2 military  leaders, Major General Ali Mohsen Saleh and Major General Mohamed Ali Mohsen, who had declared their support for the revolution. Observers believe that  through this statement, Saleh seeks to keep his relatives in their military and security positions.