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Yemeni President Hadi resigns from office

Arab World Materials 22 January 2015 22:03 (UTC +04:00)
Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has resigned Thursday from office, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
Yemeni President Hadi resigns from office

Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has resigned Thursday from office, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.

His resignation comes shortly after his government submitted its resignation.

There was no immediate word as to whether Hadi had accepted the resignation as the source did not elaborate.

Speaking to Al Arabiya News channel, Yemen's cabinet spokesperson said that the government resignation was irreversible.

Baha said in the letter offering his government's resignation that it did not want to be dragged into "an unconstructive political maze", according to a text of the document posted on his Facebook page.

The government did not wish to be "dragged into an unconstructive political maze that is not based on law or order", according to the Facebook posting.

Bahah's government, composed of technocrats and politicians drawn from a range of parties, was named in November and won a parliamentary vote of confidence the following month.

The resignation comes a day after Hadi and Houthi rebels had reached an agreement under which the militia group would withdraw from government buildings in return for concessions over a draft constitution.

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