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A Closer Look At (Ethiopian) Prosperity Party

Currently, there are more than 107 political parties in Ethiopia. This number is fluctuating because some of them are under reorganization and regrouping as PP, Ezema, OLF-led coalition, TPLF-led coalition, Medrek, etc and others are under establishment. Unless something extraordinary happen between now and the day of Ethiopia’s Election 2020, PP may not face strong opposition. For example, in Oromia, OLF has no intention to restructure itself and has no plan to develop political, economic, and social policies to rally its supporters around and Jawar Mohammad wants to focus on the process of the election rather than on the result. Dawud’sOLF wants to be elected without clear political, economic, and social policies and even without updating its half a century old political program to figure out what to do after it takes political power. This is disrespect for the Oromo people and voters. We also heard a lots of talk about election from Jawar Mohammad through the TV he manages/owns, but we didn’t see any tangible organization.
More here: http://aigaforum.com/article2019/a-clos ... -party.htm

Nice summary of the Program of the Prosperity Party.

Which way to go ?

I didn't read the whole crap just simply because it sounds so.

But I tried to pick one point that seemed something new to me:

"2. One man show:In his November 12, 2019 message, the founder of PP Dr. Abiy Ahmed said, in addition to Amharic, his party will use Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, Somali, and Afar and will struggle to make these languages Federal working languages in addition to Amharic ( The agreement to merge was signed by eight parties on December 1, 2019 and the Central Committee of the partyhaven’t yet met and discussed on the language policy. Then, how does the creator of PP picked these languages and what are the criteria to pick them? According to CIA’s World Fact Book (https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... os/et.html) the order of languages in Ethiopia based on the number of their speakers is as follows: AfanOromo 33.8%, Amharic 29.3%, Somali 6.2%, Tigrigna 5.9%, Sidamo 4%, Wolaytta 2.2%, Gurage 2%, Afar 1.7%, Hadiyya 1.7%.What are the criteria to pick Afar language to make it one of PP’s language and not picking Sidama, Wolaytta, and Gurage who has more speakers in Ethiopia and not considering Hadiya which has the same number of speaker with Afar? Even though the President of PP claims that the party will function based on knowledge and truth, what we observe is the opposite; it is simply one man show based on sweet-talking.



Some critiques say that PP’s language policy is Dr. Abiy’s attempt to dilute the demand of Oromo to make Afan Oromo additional Ethiopia’s Federal Government’s working language. The decision is not based on principles and not deliberated upon by the legal organ of the party."

After reading 2 times I failed how this content in any way amounts to be a "one man show"?

If the writer knows something that he didn't want to share in his lengthy essay, then bad on him. But this dosn't say in any way that the party is a "one man show", for God's sake.

What’s the point of having that many official languages

Agame Crap Census amharic is the largest spoken language and amara people number 45 million

Amaric and Afan Geladigna are only 2 competing languages in Ethiopia... Amaric dominates no one likes to speak Afan gelada SNNPR tribes including Gurages use Amaric to intercommicate. Tigrigna 4% will declare art 39 soon what about Welayta 5% and Sidama 6% Gurage 5%