The Rise of EPRDF: Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is a coalition of four political organizations first established by Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the then Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement (EPDM), later called Amhara Democratic Movements (ANDM) and now called Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) in 1989. Then after, the Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO), now called Oromo Democratic Party (ODP), joined EPRDF in 1990 and the Southern Ethiopia Peoples’ Democratic Front (SEPDF), now called Southern Ethiopia Peoples’ Democratic Movement (SEPDM) joined EPRDF in 1992. From the date of its establishment until Dr. Abiy Ahmed of ODP was elected as a Chairman of EPRDF in March 2018, TPLF was the mastermind of EPRDF. The other three members were simply subservient member organizations.
As Professor Paulos Milkias summarized in his paper titled “Ethiopia, the TPLF and Roots of the 2001 Political Tremor”, “In January 1989, it[TPLF] entered into an alliance with the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (EPDM), a breakaway organization of the EPRP constituted mainly of Amharas from Gondar, Wallo, and Northern Showa….
“The TPLF also brought together military captives of Oromo lineage from the war with the Derg, and together with defectors form the Oromo Liberation Front [OLF,] created the Oromo People's Democratic Organization [OPDO] to claim legitimacy in Oromia. Later, the Southern Ethiopia People’s Democratic Front [SEPDF] was added in order to expand into Southern Ethiopian territories … This phantom political party was named the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF.) The EPRDF's charter which borrowed governing ideas almost exclusively from the TPLF manifesto called for the elimination of the relics of feudalism and imperialism from Ethiopia….”
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