wtf is this Yemen blowoup?

[Mr. Morden]

Can someone who knows Yemen better than I do explain whether Hadi was/is as much of an autocrat as Saleh was before him?  When Saleh was kicked out, there was a big deal made about how Hadi was a transitional figure as the country made the move to democracy (these were the naive early days of the Arab Spring).  I know Hadi delayed elections, but is the thinking that he was going to delay them indefinitely, and was basically as much of an autocrat as Saleh was, and would always be one, but that he was simply empowering a different faction than Saleh did?