The EPRDF’s successor party — the Prosperity Party — is a radical departure from the past, in terms of ideology and membership base. Ethiopia’s party coalition was stabilizing, until it wasn’tADADThe four parties that made up the EPRDF were the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the Amhara Democratic Party, the Oromo Democratic Party and the Southern Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement. These dissenters want to maintain the old party structure and ideology and are unlikely to join the new Prosperity Party. In August, it convened a conference for pro-federalism forces that resembled a first step toward making a “federalist coalition” as an alternative to Abiy’s new Prosperity Party. Abiy’s critics claim that the dismantling of the EPRDF and establishment of the Prosperity Party did not follow appropriate party procedures, saying that one individual imposed this change.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2019 12:00 UTC