Ethiopia: Why Ethiopia Needs a Strong Incumbent Political Party in the Transition to Democracy

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On Sunday December 01 eight parties constituting the new Prosperity Party signed the document marking the unification of EPRDF

Ethiopia is going through a political transition to democracy that began under the incumbent Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnic-based political groups that ruled the country since 1991. Despite its authoritarian past, the EPRDF initially committed itself to transition to democracy that is open to all opposition political parties. After a few months into the transition, the ruling EPRDF fractured following serious political differences between leaders of the party who support democratic reforms and those who want to retain the status quo.

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