In Yemen, the ruling General People's Congress has accepted a Gulf plan under which President Ali Abdullah Saleh would quit. Party's deputy secretary general and head of its parliamentary bloc Soltan al-Barakani told agencies that the GPC and its allies have accepted the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative in its entirety. Under the GCC initiative, the president would submit his resignation to parliament within 30 days, with a presidential vote to be held within two months. The six-nation group of Gulf Arab nations has proposed the formation of a government of national unity in Yemen. Transfer of power from President Saleh to his powers to his vice president and an end to deadly protests rocking the impoverished country. A spokesman for the opposition Common Forum coalition said on 22nd April that forming a national unity government while the president is still in office is not accepted. Officials in the capital Sanaa confirmed the government had accepted the plan drawn up by Gulf Arab states. Mr Saleh will hand power to his vice-president one month after an agreement is signed with the opposition, in return for immunity from prosecution. At least 120 people have died during two months of protests. If Mr Saleh steps down as expected, he will join Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak as the latest Arab leader to lose power because of a popular revolt this year.