Sahwa Net- Yemen opposition parties, the ruling party's defected politicians met on Wednesday and formed a 143-member national council which aims at uniting various groups against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The council included representatives of civil society, members of the secessionist Southern Movement, and the northern Shiite Huthi rebels, as well as independent activists
According to Yemen's opposition parties, the national council will lead the forces of the revolution until Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure.
The opposition meeting was held at a hall in Sanaa University amid tight security enforced by the army's First Armoured Division led by General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who defected to the opposition in March.
