There is no country in the world that has such system. There is no country that has more then 16 teams, except one country with 20 teams, no country has 24 teams, most countries have no more than 12 teams.... Even the UK has only 12 teams. Premier league that does not involve nation wide free and fair competition of all teams in one tier(all put in one and only one league) cannot be considered legit. Preventing 12 teams( out of the proposed 24 teams ) from facing the other 12 teams throughout the year and allowing only the finalists from the two groups to meet is postponing the conflict and turning it into superdeadly conflict. Such idiotic system will will ultimately kill not weaken Ethiopian football. Such arrangement will institutionalize conflict of regions/ethnicities/groups... Only primitive people like Meshrefet think such things will work ... adding 6 teams to the premier league level without them deserving it or qualifying for it is like welfare donation for the inept. Qidus Georgis, which gave to forfeit losses, should have been automatically removed from the premier league, just as per the law of the league. Instead they added 6 more teams from higher league that did not qualify, the intention being to dilute Tigray's share of thequalified teams(25 of all teams were from Tigray).
Tigray should withdraw from this dysfunctional system and create its own premier league. The Good thing is Tigray won the last and more memorable Ethiopian premier league cup. One more reason why independent Tigray is the only option for Agazian Tigreans. If Debreporno does not declare such premier league arrangement as null and void then he is son of a dog, useless banda Hamasenay, serving as 5th columnist of Tigray's enemies.