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Ethiopia: TPLF Factions Make Up ahead of Election
Posted on 30 January 2014.
By Indian Ocean Newsletter,
A former advisor to the late Prime Minister Meles Zenai and ex-member of the
central committee of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) Bitew Belay
has acted, according to our sources, as an intermediary between the two TPLF
factions, the Mekelle group and the Addis Ababa group.
Belay was sacked and indicted for corruption in 2001 during the purge
against Seye Abraha and TPLF dissidents. He has now moved into the world of
business.
Like many other former TPLF leaders, he fears that internal dissent in the
party could lead to diluting its hold on Ethiopian politics and
administration. Because of its internal divisions, the Mekelle group led by
the president of the TPLF and the Tigray Regional State, Abay Woldu, had to
make concessions to the Addis Ababa faction headed by Debretsion
Gebremichael, the current Deputy Prime Minister.
The two factions have now decided to put quarrels behind them and join
forces so that the next prime minister in 2017 could be a member of the
TPLF, or at least a Tigryan.
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