Feb. 3rd.: Yemen's Day of Anger

The opposition coalition has declared February 3rd to be Yemen's Day of Anger calling for Yemenis to take to the streets and protest against government rule. Egypt's Day of Anger, January 25th, sparked the current popular uprising that threatens to unseat long time president Hosni Mubarak.

The opposition leaders made the calls for protests following a refusal by the General People's Congress (GPC) to convene the National Dialogue Committee. The National Dialogue Committee is composed of the President, vice President and two leaders of the opposition party and is a forum for addressing the political grievances and imbalances in the current system. In particular, the opposition coalition, or Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), is unhappy with a current proposed constitutional amendment that would remove term limits allowing the president to run for office again.

“These amendments came to serve the authorities, not the country and the people. Therefore the people went out on these public demonstrations to express that they are fed up with the political situation,” said No’man. “The question now is: is this regime in a situation that allows it to make any social, economic or security improvements?”

Courtesy of the Yemen Times: LINK

That's the word from the top. I don't know what the average Yemeni knows or cares about opposition declaration. I will write more as I learn more.