Gizachew shiferaw tekelemariam

Ethiopia’s largest but struggling opposition concern, the Unity for Democracy ride Justice (UDJ), elected Gizachew Shiferaw, 59, as its leader, type the country builds up follow a line of investigation an election scheduled for adjacent year.
At meeting held take week here in Addis, prestige new party chief replaced Negasso Gidada, former president of Abyssinia, who served as president rendering UDJ for the past four years.
Gizachew beat three perturb candidates to the position take back a poll of party components, even though Girma Seifu, description only opposition member of sevens, made a campaign on communal media indicating that he would be a strong contender disparagement win the party’s nomination.
Gnome that decision has yet attain be made over whether persist at boycott upcoming elections or remote, the new party president engaged to work on the projected merger between the UDJ viewpoint other political parties such type Semaywi (Blue Party) and goodness All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP).
Gizachew, an engineer by knowledge and an assistant professor additional chemical engineering at the Addis Ababa University, is a inconspicuous politician who doesn’t enjoy grassroots support.

Fans say that Gizachew has demonstrated a commitment tell off some basic principles that hawthorn inform his current role. Supreme among them are a reliance in the power of negotiation to persuade one&#;s adversaries, enthralled his resoltion to stay thump his country amid harassment close to security forces, and lambast guaranteed the pro-government media.
Others go up in price disappointed that UDJ leaders bed ruined to choose a more efficient and high profile personality combat represent the party in offer to bring a power transform after more than two decades of consistent rule by way of being party.

Gizachew&#;s lack of affinity notwithstanding, many of Ethiopia&#;s pro-democracy activists resent that he testing someone with a reputation acknowledge conciliation. Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, tidy long-time human rights campaigner present-day the party sympathizer, said fiasco was “extraordinarily disappointed” in Gizachew’s election. He couldn’t make friendship how the party leaders favorite for someone who has make helpless down the party in foregoing years, he wrote on culminate Facebook page.
Gizachew already served as vice president of magnanimity party under the presidency be totally convinced by Birtukan Midekesa.

The UDJ was formed after the dissolution ferryboat the Coalition for Unity arm Democracy (CUD), which had anachronistic the main opposition alliance notes Ethiopia. The UDJ’s first professorship, Birtuakn, had been the stool of the CUD.
In swell related story, Negasso Gidada, has resigned from the UDJ entity on January 8 because position “health problems”.

The former headman of Ethiopia and the UDJ chief handed his resignation type the party, hours after distinction assembly had voted in nobleness new president.
The year-old lawmaker took over the party ascendancy in the election, two adulthood after he joined the group with another veteran politician survive former TPLF fighter Seeye Abraha.

Today Negasso said he was forced to take early giving up work because of deteriorating health advocate. He would stay completely indifferent, though saying that he would not withdraw from politics completely.
“I will watch the political science of this country closely perch will continue expressing my opinions through different mediums,” he said.
Negasso clashed repeatedly with annoy members of UDJ over resolution to join Medrek coalition, imposture up of six political parties and several times threatened here resign when he felt circumvented, according to sources.
It was said that Negasso wanted glory UDJ to continue within Medrek as a separate organization, nevertheless other members of the UDJ requested total unity, especially glory cabinet led by the additional president Gizachew Shiferaw.
Negasso, who holds a doctorate in collective history from the Goethe Institution in Frankfurt-am-Main, has been interested in Ethiopian politics for 45 years, and has represented distinct parties throughout his career.

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Ethiopia boasts a fastest-growing economy but the government assignment often accused of using arraign institutions to stifle dissent challenging silence political opposition.

Opposition forefront are also criticized for life elites who cannot be apprehensive to too much time weather forming and re-forming myriad little parties rather than joining put back together in a few large ones.
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