And The Winner Is...

Well, the election's over and the president's still the president. By the end of this term he will have been in power for 35 years; let's hear it for democracy.
On a side note, only 70 people died as a direct result of this election. Sixty of those were accidental stampede-deaths following various campaign speeches, which leaves only ten or so who were deliberately killed at the polls because of who they were voting for. You must understand that this is extremely low for Yemen, and represents major steps forward in security and fair-mindedness.



Ali Abdullah Saleh,
president of the
Republic of Yemen.