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Yemeni hints elections could be put off

Vote is key part of deal for Saleh to give up power

By Kareem Fahim

 |  New York Times  

  January 18, 2012

Adding to fears of a worsening political crisis in Yemen, a top government official hinted that presidential elections set for February that would mark the formal end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year rule could be delayed. During an interview broadcast yesterday on Al Arabiya, Yemen’s foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, said it would be “difficult’’ to hold the elections on Feb. 21 as planned because security in the country was deteriorating. The elections are a condition of a power transfer deal that Saleh signed in November.

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