No doubt this year will pass as a time of endless marathon meetings by the ruling party's rank and file, while the public discontent will have no reason to subside, gossip foresees. Taking the recent high-level "criticism and self-criticism" sessions of the TPLF as a standard bearer, each party in the ruling coalition is going through the same ordeal, in an attempt to steam the "bad guys" out, claims gossip.
The parties have their respective politburo, and executive committee members meet before their senior and mid-level cadres congregate. A campaign will follow large town hall meetings with members of the public, in the leaders' bid to get the latter's blessing. In all these, the party is trying to redeem itself before its day of reckoning, come national elections in two years, according to gossip.
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