Yemenis Optimistic About Vote

By The World ⋅ February 21, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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President Ali Abdullah Saleh (Photo: www.kremlin.ru./Wiki Commons)

Voters in Yemen went to the polls Tuesday to replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who’d been in power for 33 years.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Tom Finn, correspondent for Reuters in the capital of Sana’a.

He says Yemenis were optimistic about the vote, even though there was only one candidate on the ballot.

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