SANAA (Reuters) - Three leading Yemeni parties have rejected a proposal to turn the country into a federation of semi-autonomous regions, in the latest blow to a national dialogue designed to put Yemen on track to democratic elections.
The national dialogue, launched in March as part of a 2011 Gulf-brokered power transfer deal that eased long-serving president Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office, has been struggling with demands by southern separatists to restore South Yemen, which merged with North Yemen in 1990.
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