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Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb
Addis Ababa, May 04/2020 – The Executive Committee of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) approved a decision late tonight to hold the next regional elections. The decision came at the end of the three-day EC meeting and comes a day before the Ethiopian parliament meets to approve one of the four alternatives presented by the federal government.
The TPLF Executive adopted a five-point resolution at the end of the three-day meeting, during which the party said it has debated extensively about the current work of the regional administration, including the region’s efforts to contain COVID-19. . “One of the pressing issues that the executive has deliberated at length was the subject of the national agenda led by the Prosperity Party, which has now reached a stage of campaign in which it threatens to dismantle the constitutional order,” the notice.
TPLF accused the Prosperity Party of shuffling to avoid holding elections before the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia was reported, which has now become “a good opportunity to establish an authoritarian one-man government” and strengthen the party’s efforts to extend his term of office “unconstitutionally.”
TPLF also criticized the April 29 meeting between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and representatives of opposition parties during which Deputy Attorney General Dr. Gedion Timotiwos presented the government’s alternative to avoid an impending constitutional crisis due to Ethiopia’s deferred elections. The government presented four options during the meeting: dissolve Parliament; Declaring a state of emergency; Amend the constitution; and looking for constitutional interpretations. TPLF called the meeting an incident in which the Prime Minister’s explicit desire to hold onto power unconstitutionally was evident and said it was “absolutely unacceptable”.
The House of People’s Representatives is expected to pass one of the above four alternatives at its third special session tomorrow. But the TPLF statement says it has now become clear that “under the guise of constitutional interpretation, the ruling party has come too close to dismantling the constitutional order.”
Therefore, the TPLF Executive issues a five-point resolution in response.
The first resolution called for an immediate end to the “explicit movement of the Prosperity Party to undo constitutional order under the pretext of constitutional interpretation”, and to focus on coordinating efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 and hold elections in the framework of the constitution in a participatory manner involving all political parties.
The second resolution says that while maintaining the practice of dialogue is important, because the ruling Prosperity party does not have the moral capacity to hold free and fair elections, TPLF called for ways to reach consensus and create a special agreement whereby peace and sovereignty The country receives enough attention and electoral preparations can begin.
The third resolution He warned that failure to do so will lead to a complicated crisis after October 2020, during which the current government’s term will end. The likelihood of such a crisis, along with the “illegitimate way in which the Prosperity Party dissolved the EPRDF and crowned itself” will be difficult to avoid. However. He said that TPLF would be more than willing to work with political parties that are willing to fully recognize the Tigray people’s right to self-administration, including holding regional elections, to avoid impending chaos. This move will take place based on the principles of efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, as well as the acceptable principles of the constitution.
The fourth resolution He called on both members of the House of People’s Representatives and the House of the Federation to stop acting, threatening to dismantle the constitutional order in broad daylight and distance themselves from it.
And the fifth resolution reaffirms TPLF’s commitment to work with all political parties that have a “similar agenda” in their efforts “to help save the order from multinational federalism.” HOW
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