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February 28, 2012
The Parliament demanded on Tuesday Prime Minister Mohammed Saleh
Basindoh apologizes for not attending the new Yemeni President Abdu Rabu
Mansour Hadi inauguration ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Monday.
In its Tuesday's session which was chaired by the Speaker Yahia
al-Rayie, the Parliament has demanded that Basindoh extend an apology to the
President and another to the Parliament for deciding not to take part in the
inauguration ceremony.
Given the primary importance of the occasion as it embodies the peaceful
transfer of power, and since Basindoh is the Premier of the National
Reconciliation Government; not a representative of one party or the other, he
should have attended the ceremony, the Parliament members said.
Basindoh as well as all opposition figures refused to attend the
ceremony because the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh took part in it.
Saleh's General People Congress Party has the overwhelming majority in
the Parliament as they account for more than two thirds of the total number of
the members.
The House of Representative also approved sending a letter to the
Cabinet, asking it to present a detailed report, explaining what it has
achieved on recommendations and suggestions.
Basindoh has attended, in response to the Parliament request, early this
year the debate on the controversial immunity law and urged the PMs to vote for
it.
He was appointed as the head of the caretaker government based on the
GCC-brokered deal which was signed in November in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
Source: Yemen Post
