July 24, 2024
During a meeting with opposition parties this week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed warned of the possibility of a new war if the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) does not comply with the re-registration procedures implemented by his government. About the November 2020 to November 2022 war that killed over a million people, he said ” It is to be recalled the crisis we entered when many of us agreed when the Election Board decided to postpone the election, but the TPLF did not agree. You can imagine how many people were destroyed and how much wealth was destroyed.”
The new procedures for re-registration were established following the stalemate in implementing the provisions of the Pretoria Agreement. Prime Minister Abiy stated that the government had amended the relevant regulations to reintegrate the TPLF. However, the TPLF contends that the new regulation only allows for the party’s registration as a new entity, rather than reinstating its previous status.
Tigray has now become the only member of the federation with no representation in both the House of People’s Representatives and the House of Federation for nearly four of the federation’s twenty-nine-year history, which it helped establish through the 1995 constitution. The TPLF previously held the seats in both houses. The party has been awaiting the restoration of its legal status as a registered political party, which it lost during the war, and plans to hold its congress once this status is regained.
The last time Prime Minister Abiy warned of a potentially more devastating war was in March when he met with Tigrayan representatives from Tigray and Addis Ababa in his office at Arat kilo.
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