Fuel to the fireHelping to stoke tensions was an incendiary commentary published on 17 February on Al Jazeera's website by former Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome...
Since being floated in 2016 by then President Mulatu Teshome a largely ceremonial head of state there has been no concerted talk of any switch to proportional representation from first-past-the-post which had been discussed as a way to ease tensions in Addis Ababa between the bitterly opposed factions (AC Vol 57 No 21 Ruling party ploughs on)...
Its answer announced by President Mulatu Teshome Wirtu at the opening of Parliament on 10 October is to introduce an element of proportional representation into the first-past-the-post system but no details have emerged...
The governing Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front played it safe by electing Mulatu Teshome Wirtu to the largely ceremonial office of President on 7 October...