{"id":304847,"date":"2026-05-31T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=304847"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:17:23","slug":"ethiopians-to-vote-under-the-shadow-of-a-foregone-outcome-addis-frtune-2203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/?p=304847","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopians To Vote Under The Shadow Of A Foregone Outcome\u00a0&#8211; Addis Frtune 22:03"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopanorama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-152.png?fit=800%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304848\" style=\"width:211px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopanorama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-152.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopanorama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-152.png?resize=800%2C174&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopanorama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-152.png?resize=1024%2C223&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"main_nav\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addisfortune.news\/commentary\">Commentary<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addisfortune.news\/viewpoint\">Viewpoint<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addisfortune.news\/money-market-watch\">Money Market Watch<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/addisfortune.news\/ethiopians-to-vote-under-the-shadow-of-a-foregone-outcome-2#\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The international presence at Monday\u2019s polls marks a historic low. The European Union, whose monitoring missions historically shaped global perspectives on Ethiopian politics, has deployed no observers. The current footprint is strictly limited to regional bodies, including the African Union, which has sent a short-term delegation, and IGAD, which has deployed 26 regional experts. NEBE officials have downplayed the absence of Western missions, publicly stating that the quality, independence, and meaning of observation findings outweigh dependence on raw numbers alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br \/><strong>You can read the full story<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/addisfortune.news\/ethiopians-to-vote-under-the-shadow-of-a-foregone-outcome\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;here&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international presence at Monday\u2019s polls marks a historic low. The European Union, whose monitoring missions historically shaped global perspectives on Ethiopian politics, has deployed no observers. The current footprint is strictly limited to regional bodies, including the African Union, which has sent a short-term delegation, and IGAD, which has deployed 26 regional experts. NEBE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304849,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304847\/revisions\/304849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopanorama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}