Is it demotion or promotion?
Posted: 07 Oct 2024, 09:01
sarcasm,sarcasm wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 16:37Ethiopia has parliamentarian state system and the power of the government rests on the Prime Minister who leads the government. The office of the President does not have any real powers as it is largely a ceremonial function. The head of state / President is responsible for giving speeches in state ceremonies, granting clemencies and meeting ambassadors when they are appointed and when they finish their appointments.
A Foreign Minister, on the other hand, holds an executive power and is one the country's top 3 or 4 most power officials. Ato Taye's appointment does not look a promotion when you look at the real powers given especially as he hasn't even served for a full year as a Foreign Minister.
Eritrean Foreign Minister Petros Solomon (currently imprisoned incommunicado with his wife for over 23 year) and his friends used to call his office the Firefighters Ministry. Isaias used to start 'fire' with Yemen, Djibouti, France, African Union etc and it was the Foreign Minister's job to defuse conflicts started by Isaias and try to restore normalcy. Abiy and his short-termist foreign policies have been disrupting Ethiopia's friendly relationships with Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, China, EU Countries, USA etc at different times, and I guess one would probably rather have a ceremonial stress-free job rather than a supposedly top job without real powers to set the foreign policies of the country.
Hi Defend,DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 16:53sarcasm,
I called you on the other thread but you never came back to it, hopefully not intentional.
I read in your list of job-descriptions of Ethiopian Presidents and failed to locate one of the key contributions of a former President of the country. President Mulatu Teshome was credited for attracting many FDI into the country, many of the Chinese investors in the country were said to have been won over by him. Not only from China but also from Turkey and other places, if you don't doubt about that, then is that function not executing something?
A president is a figure head, meets dignitaries, can contact them on various issues of his/her particular interest, can negotiate with counterparts on national interest issues, and many more.
I am really lost.
BTW., even the First Lady has changed many things on the ground, all are cross generational contributions to the nation, schools, mega bakeries, etc. And that title was not much known before, doesn't have much budget, if at all.
sarcasm wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 16:37Ethiopia has parliamentarian state system and the power of the government rests on the Prime Minister who leads the government. The office of the President does not have any real powers as it is largely a ceremonial function. The head of state / President is responsible for giving speeches in state ceremonies, granting clemencies and meeting ambassadors when they are appointed and when they finish their appointments.
A Foreign Minister, on the other hand, holds an executive power and is one the country's top 3 or 4 most power officials. Ato Taye's appointment does not look a promotion when you look at the real powers given especially as he hasn't even served for a full year as a Foreign Minister.
Eritrean Foreign Minister Petros Solomon (currently imprisoned incommunicado with his wife for over 23 year) and his friends used to call his office the Firefighters Ministry. Isaias used to start 'fire' with Yemen, Djibouti, France, African Union etc and it was the Foreign Minister's job to defuse conflicts started by Isaias and try to restore normalcy. Abiy and his short-termist foreign policies have been disrupting Ethiopia's friendly relationships with Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, China, EU Countries, USA etc at different times, and I guess one would probably rather have a ceremonial stress-free job rather than a supposedly top job without real powers to set the foreign policies of the country.
sarcasm wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 18:27Hi Defend,DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 16:53sarcasm,
I called you on the other thread but you never came back to it, hopefully not intentional.
I read in your list of job-descriptions of Ethiopian Presidents and failed to locate one of the key contributions of a former President of the country. President Mulatu Teshome was credited for attracting many FDI into the country, many of the Chinese investors in the country were said to have been won over by him. Not only from China but also from Turkey and other places, if you don't doubt about that, then is that function not executing something?
A president is a figure head, meets dignitaries, can contact them on various issues of his/her particular interest, can negotiate with counterparts on national interest issues, and many more.
I am really lost.
BTW., even the First Lady has changed many things on the ground, all are cross generational contributions to the nation, schools, mega bakeries, etc. And that title was not much known before, doesn't have much budget, if at all.
I did not see your message on the other thready. Please post the link on this thread, I will then reply on that one.
I was just comparing the offices of the President and the Foreign Minister generally in the above post. President Mulatu brought a lot of FDI from China and other countries as a Minister of Economic Development, then Ambassador to China and later as a President. Even after he left the office of the President, I have seen him in almost in all high level economic delegations to China. I think this is all because of his special experience and qualities rather than because he was a president. I don't think the preceding president before him generated any FDI as a president. Other ministries such as the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Foreign, Trade & Industry, Urban Dvpt & Construction, Technology etc are responsible in generating FDIs.
My post was not in anyway a put down of the office of President. You are expected to exercise the powers given to you by law, nothing more. I am sure, the office has more prestige in the eyes of many Ethiopians than other ministries with executive powers.
Hi DE,Dark Energy wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 23:40Sarcasm aka Eden,
The great Petros Solomon was not the foreign minister. It was Haile Drue. Haile was trying to defuse the Badme war before it started. He got lot of bad rap aka negative propaganda for that. Both contributed a lot to Eritrean independence to become a reality.
sarcasm wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 16:37Eritrean Foreign Minister Petros Solomon (currently imprisoned incommunicado with his wife for over 23 year) and his friends used to call his office the Firefighters Ministry. Isaias used to start 'fire' with Yemen, Djibouti, France, African Union etc and it was the Foreign Minister's job to defuse conflicts started by Isaias and try to restore normalcy.