Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh 1st President of Yemen In office 22 May 1990* – 27 February 2012 Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas Muhammad Said Al-Attar Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Faraj Said Bin Ghanem Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar Mohammed Basindawa Vice President Ali Salim Al-Beidh (1990–1994) Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (1994–2012) Preceded by position established Succeeded by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi President of Yemen Arab Republic In office 18 July 1978 – 22 May 1990 Prime Minister Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Abd al-Karim al-Iryani Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani Preceded by Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi Succeeded by position abolished Vice President of Yemen Arab Republic In office 24 June 1978 – 18 July 1978 President Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi Preceded by Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi Succeeded by position abolished Personal details Born (1942-03-21) 21 March 1942 (age 72) Al-Ahmar, Yemen Political party General People's Congress (1982–2012) Relations Ahmed Saleh (son) Religion Zaidite Military service Years of service 1958–2012 Rank Field Marshal Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi served as Acting President from 4 June 2011 – 23 September 2011 and again from 23 November 2011 – 27 February 2012. Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح , ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ; born 21 March 1942) is a Yemeni politician who was President of Yemen from 1990 to 2012. Saleh previously served as President of North Yemen from 1978 until unification with South Yemen in 1990. After more than 33 years in power, Saleh signed the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement in November 2011, paving the way for his vice president to become acting president until 21 February 2012; at that point the vice president would be elected to the presidency. On 22 January 2012, the Yemeni parliament passed a law that granted Saleh immunity from being prosecuted and he left Yemen for treatment in the United States. Saleh stepped down and formally ceded power to his deputy Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi at the Presidential Palace on 27 February 2012.