Ahmed Abdullah-Addis Ababa
Official Ethiopian TV announced on Wednesday that the National Elections Council of Ethiopia issued an official certificate of recognition to Prime Minister Abi Ahmed's Prosperity Party, in a step that paves the way for the elections scheduled for 2020.
The Ethiopian Election Council (an independent constitutional body) said that "three members of the Revolutionary Democratic Front Party of the Peoples of Ethiopia (the ruling coalition) and five other parties submitted an application to the council to register them as one party under the name of" prosperity "on December 4, and accordingly it was granted The council's certificate of recognition for the party. "
On the other hand, the Tigray Liberation Front - one of the main coalition parties - rejected the idea of merging with prosperity, and decided not to join the new party, as well as threatening it to take legal measures against it, considering that his stay in power is illegal, and asserting that power is the right of the coalition that received it On behalf of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
Observers expect the move to spark widespread political controversy after the threats of the Liberation Commercial Front, especially as the move comes in preparation for participating in political work and running in the elections scheduled for May 2020.
The Prosperity Party announced this December that it will run in the next elections. It includes 8 parties, including 3 main parties that make up the ruling coalition in Ethiopia, namely the Democratic Oromo, the Democratic Al-Amhara, and the democratic movement of the peoples of southern Ethiopia, the main component of the ruling coalition, along with the pro-coalition parties, which are Afar, Ethiopian Somalia, Gambella, Beni Shankoul Gums and Harar.