PP wins and Ethiopianists supporting PP win whatever election the election was. We know by democratic standards this election was not competitive or inclusive of opposition. It can be said a formality election but for the center and south of the country the election may have been democratic but with no much choice in the menu.
PP has fortunately or unfortunately turned out to be the best option for the people because it is the one in power and from all oromo and Amhara parties more Ethiopian and less of a tribal. Why do we say that?
1. Look Fando: its supporters say to join the club you have to be pure blood Amhara fanatic to crush the “Junkie” ethnics and it even does not care not to call feudal names. It’s brigade’s are all named after Fitawraris, Minilik, theodros…names that don’t resonate with other Ethiopians or outright infuriating due to feudal crimes. Unless Fando reshapes itself in many ways it is dead. It has to move forward from past feudal relics, modernize itself and embrace Ethiopianism by including every facet of Ethiopians and get attractive ideology. Perhaps get the help of Eskender. No overt association with Shabia or sudan, egypt or TPLF. No sane politician would associate itself with enemies of Ethiopia. Because of those issues Fando will remain hated.
2. OLA is not even worth discussing. It is a brutal killer of civilians and has to be disbanded; by no means to be par with Pp
3. TPLF: it may be changing its oldies. It should remove debre and change its name to something better because TPLF is outdated. It has already made important history for further unraveling ethnic oppression in Ethiopia. It can retain that history but has to change to modern political party embracing Ethiopia and garner more Ethiopian support.
Unless these changes happen, Abiy could be a president or even a kink
if he continues to succeed in turning around the economy, development then add building institutions, improve the constitution, work for the port and slowly open up the space for seasoned opposition politicians and release prisoners of politics specially the amhara like meskerem and Tadios and Bua-Yalew/christian et al.