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Yemen's opposition urges for protests
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Yemen's opposition called people to struggle after lawmakers dismissed its objections to constitutional amendments that could allow President Ali Abdullah Saleh to rule for life. The oppositional movement Common Forum urged for "mobilizing the people's struggle" and "instantly organizing protests... to mark the New Year (2011) as the year of peaceful struggle until achieving ultimate victory."The calls came after some 170 members of Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party voted Saturday in favor of constitutional changes that allow president to be elected for more than two consecutive terms despite opposition protests and calls by the US for a vote delay. "The regime has begun producing corrupt and authoritarian policies outside the constitution and the law," Alarabiya.net quotes the Common Forum as saying.