{"id":110039,"date":"2019-10-18T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopanorama.com\/?p=110039"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:19:39","slug":"ethiopia-ruling-coalition-to-shake-up-decision-making-structures-bnn-bloomberg-1238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=110039","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Ruling Coalition to Shake Up Decision-Making Structures &#8211; BNN Bloomberg 12:38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nizar Manek,&nbsp;Bloomberg News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Bloomberg) &#8212; Ethiopia\u2019s ruling coalition plans to overhaul of its decision-making structures and to tear-up its ideology of three decades, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s part of the alliance said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, is a former rebel movement made up of four ethnically-based regional parties &#8212; including Abiy\u2019s Oromo Democratic Party &#8212; and five affiliated regional parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ODP announced the plans Friday to restructure the coalition and replace the EPRDF\u2019s ideology of \u201crevolutionary democracy,\u201d which it branded divisive and \u201cundemocratic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move comes as the ruling coalition gears up for elections scheduled for next year, in which the EPRDF\u2019s constituent branches must compete with opposition parties amid a political opening up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRevolutionary Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EPRDF has promoted the \u201crevolutionary democracy\u201d since it toppled a military junta in 1991 and during ascendancy of the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front within the alliance. While the TPLF rules Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region, which consists of 6.1% of the population, the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups make up almost two-thirds of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopian Premier Abiy Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Eritrea Accord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The push to overhaul the coalition\u2019s structure is a means to increase the representation for Oromo and Amhara within EPRDF executive organs, giving them greater sway ahead of the elections, according to Ermias Tesfaye, an independent consultant in Burayu, Oromia state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The existing decision-making structure \u201callows a small group to make decisions\u201d over Ethiopia\u2019s complex ethnically-based federation and is \u201cnot compatible with the current state of the struggle,\u201d the ODP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rushed restructuring of the EPRDF would send the country into chaos, the TPLF said in an Oct. 15 statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To contact the reporter on this story: Nizar Manek in Nairobi at nmanek2@bloomberg.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Malingha at dmalingha@bloomberg.net, Helen Nyambura<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a92019 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nizar Manek,&nbsp;Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) &#8212; Ethiopia\u2019s ruling coalition plans to overhaul of its decision-making structures and to tear-up its ideology of three decades, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s part of the alliance said. 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