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Oromo forces are in full hegemony within the ruling Ethiopian Prosperity Party: Tamrat Layne
borkena
December 28, 2020
Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Tamrat Layne said he does not agree with the Prosperity Party. He cited a number of reasons why he lost faith in the party, a party that was established in November 2019 after four main parties of the now-defunct Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPDRF) and four other supporting parties merged. under the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
In an interview with Abbay media over the weekend, Tamrat Layne said the party was quickly established, without extensive consultation.
According to him, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s political cadres were sent to Bahir Dar, the Amhara regional state seat, to involve more than two thousand cadres in the region. The idea of merging the parties encountered resistance from cadres in the region, said Tramrat, who said he was in town at the time for personal reasons. The cadres were convinced at the time in light of the prospect of a political advantage that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) would gain from the situation.
For him, the Prosperity Party is not much different from the EPRDF under the TPLF. The latter’s hegemony is now replaced by the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) within the Prosperity Party.
In fact, there are other political groups that seem to support Tamrat Layne’s position regarding the power of what used to be OPDO in the current power arrangement within the Prosperity Party. There is an accusation that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s political base, OPDO, is working on an expansionist and domination agenda. The massacre in the Oromo region, the Benishangul Gumuz region and southern Ethiopia is now increasingly seen as part of the expansionist agenda of the Oromo Region Prosperity Party.
Tamrat Layene was the leader of what later became the Amhara National Democratic Movement, an ethnic party after the former Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement (EPDM) was renamed under influence after 1991 under the influence of the TPLF.
Critics of Tamrat Layne reject his opinion primarily on the basis of his political involvement under the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, not his views on current Prosperity Party politics. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
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