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Ethiopian opposition figure says vote reform offer not enough
October 10, 2016
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The Ethiopian president's call to broaden
Ethiopia's democracy following a wave of protests is "too little, too
late," a senior opposition politician from a region that has been
gripped by anti-government protests said on Monday.
"This is what we have been asking for the past 15 to 16 years. Now, it
is too little, too late," Merera Gudina, leader of the Oromo
Federalist Congress, told Reuters, after a call for electoral change
by the president, who does not have executive powers but has served in
the ruling coalition.
"People are now demanding new elections be held immediately," Merera
said, after opposition parties failed to win a single seat in the 2015
parliamentary vote.
(Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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