SANAA, Sep. 8 (Xinhua) -- Yemeni oppositions on Thursday
refused a compromise proposed by the ruling party which provided a three-month
buffer period for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to transfer power based on a
Gulf-brokered deal, the opposition's spokesman said.
Saleh's ruling party on Wednesday called for talks with the
oppositions in a bid to set a mechanism for power transition based on a deal
initiated by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
However, the spokesman of the opposition coalition Joint
Meeting Parties (JMP) Mohamed Qahtan told Xinhua that "we (JMP) have no
idea on the ruling party's proposed mechanism. We still support the GCC
initiative, but (there is) no dialogue with Saleh' s party until he signs it
first."
Meanwhile, the oppositions on Thursday called on the Yemeni
people to take part in massive protests after Friday prayers for peacefully
toppling Saleh and his regime, opposition media said.
Thousands of anti-government protesters staged marches on
Thursday in Yemen's major cities to show their anger to what they claimed
"the U.S.-Saudi policies backing Ali Abdullah Saleh," witnesses said.
The protesters took to the streets of the capital Sanaa,
Taiz, Dhamar, Ibb and Al-Bayda provinces to renew the demand for ousting the
embattled president.
Saleh, who has confronted eight-month-long popular protests
demanding an end to his 33-year rule, is still in Saudi Arabia for
rehabilitation from wounds he sustained in a shelling attack on his
presidential compound in Sanaa on June 3.
The almost daily protest triggered growing tension between
government troops and defected army and deterioration of security situation,
which caused severe fuel and power shortages and mostly paralyzed economic
activities in the impoverished Arab country.
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