Selam/ wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 20:43
Horus - You got this one right.
If Abiy doesn’t deal with the constitutional confusion of the tribal system before the next election, his electrification, reforestation, transportation, wheat germination, urbanization, modernization, etc efforts will be compromised.
May I ask you about how the development efforts of anybody in the country, be that the PM or anybody else, could be compromised, if you could explain?
Who is going to prefer underdevelopment to a development with a rational state of mind and why, not only in Ethiopia but anywhere else in this world?
The video Horus shared indicates that the country is overcoming the decades old dependency on foreign aid and now poised to export the surplus to the outside world itself, which is said was unseen for at least the last 50 years or so?
If no rational mind will ever be choosing a dependency on others over self-sufficiency, which rational mind do you have to suggest that Ethiopians will going to compromise their own self-sufficiency?
Wheather "constitutional confusion" is real or just your perception I am not convinced that Abiy Ahmed is in a position to change it, he has no power for that, what so ever.
He is there to serve the constitution (accountable to it), not the constitution is acceptable to the PM.
Constitution can be changed by a democratic means in a democratic society, but there is no means designed for a PM of a parliamentary democracy to change the constitution. You can correct me, if you know one.
Horus is never tired to confuse his gullible readers by suggesting the PM should change the constitution, probably to try to compensate for the failure on the democratic arena of his camp.
He claims tirelessly that he is a student of social science and with that also of political science, but if I ask him a simple question how is the PM supposed to change the constitution, then he simply mutes.
In my view in fact it is not even the PM that is directly accountable to the constitution rather it is the party which he represents that is directly accountable to the constitution and the PM himself is in turn accountable to the party he represents in the government.
The party can dismiss the PM from power any time it deemed necessary to do so.
Further the call for constitutional change is not much different in substance from the never ending call for a transitional government in the country, which would have automatically suspended the constitution, if it were to succeed.
In that sense your uncalled for and unfounded call for "compromise" is the same old and tired call for TG in Ethiopia, a step backward and the majority has said to that, thanks but no thanks.