The rubber-stamp parliament in Ethiopia was scheduled to meet today to formally appoint Hailemariam Dessalegn as prime minister, but Ethiopian Review sources in Addis Ababa reported this afternoon that the meeting was abruptly canceled yesterday after Meles Zenawi’s wife Azeb Mesfin refused to leave the prime minister’s house. The mother of corruption dared any one to even suggest that she vacates “her house” until her husband is buried on September 2.
On top of that, it is reported that mid-ranking TPLF members have been confronting Seyoum Mesfin and other senior TPLF leaders since Tuesday over the selection of Hailemariam. Their complaint is that a position as critical as the prime minister should be reserved for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Our sources are reporting that Azeb Mesfin is behind the simmering revolt in the TPLF rank. A deadly clash among the various TPLF factions is becoming a real possibility.
8 thoughts on “The convening of parliament postponed because of TPLF internal revolt”
Obo Elias:
I have reserved a front seat to watch the fight set to commence soon between these animals. It is going to be a hit, man. It will shatter all attendance records in a power fight in our country’s history. Hey Seyoum!!! You go in there and fight you bum!!! Hey you loose cannon Abay!!!! You jump in there and mix it up you ugly gorilla face blood sucker!!! The entire people are waiting for you holding a long and killer switch in their justice hand so they can kick your cactus-fed asses to oblivion with it!!!! Let’s go.
I just read news that another editor of a news paper(Feteh) in Ethiopia was arrested today. Wow!! There is no abating of jailing journalists. This is even more troubling.
That is inevitable. They think they r chosen by GOD to rule that country. Their downfall is sooner.
Azeb has no influence on the power struggle among TPLF. They all eliminate each other and the first to be eliminated is Azeb.
way gude..way gude..hmm..it is time now to resume what had been disrupted , to be exact, 21 years ago. Time to form a government that represents the people, not only peole of the North Ethiopia. Time to form government the cares about the 98% of the poorrest of the poore who does not have enough to eat on a daily basis. yes!!! it is time to speak out and to shout and cry out for change that brings stability and total reform for all. It is time to face the fear in our heart and change it to be the strength and fuel to bring about the change we have been yearning about for along..long time now.
Azeb!!!??? Azeb!!!??? our time “YODIT GOODIT”, She is the dimise of the TPLF and or current enat Ethiopia her, develish and ignorant ambition go beyond anybody’s imagination. Whoever observe her theatrical reaction, her crocodial tear, the other day can easily emagine what’s she is up to. Very scary for Ethiopia for short term.
God protect our Ethiopia from all these evil dooers
Elias, I disagree on this one because as far as I know ANDEM and OPDO are protesting against Hailemariam especially ANDEM as the deputy prime minister was always Addissu Legesse and both ANDEM and OPDO think they are the majority and deserve the PM post. It is unlikely that TPLF installs another Tigrean as a PM, unless they risk to widen the divisions among EPRDF member organizations. The best option for TPLF is to put someone from a minority tribe with almost no power base in the EPRDF, as a PM and actually fully control the PM behind. That was the preferred plan by Meles and I think this is the best plan for TPLF. But as I said above, this will not be an easy task for many in ANDEM and OPDO feel they deserve the post as a majority. If Hailemariam is going to be the PM, then I expect some imprisonment of senior ANDEM members after that.
These people never cease to amaze me. Meles died on July 15, 2012 and they had over a month to get their acts together. However, after all those lies and obfuscation to gain time, they are unraveling right in front of our eyes. Azeb thinks she is entitled to live in Menelik Palace for as long as she wishes it, since the country and everything in it used to be her playground and that of her husband.
I don’t think I am alone in thinking that Bereket really missed his calling. Watching what he did at Bole on Tuesday night, I think the guy is an excellent stage director/manager.
Let’s analyze his handiwork:
1. According to the IBT News footage, we see a lone silver hearse (we really don’t know when this footage was taken since the video doesn’t have a time stamp-but let’s just assumed it was Tuesday), led by a single police escort and followed by a silver Mercedes Benz sedan (we really don’t know if this car is following the hearse or just routine traffic) getting into a secured facility, allegedly the airport at Brussels. We also see, a still, superimposed picture of an EAL jet on a tarmac somewhere (let’s just assume Brussels airport for now). The assumption here is- the silver hearse delivered the coffin containing the body of the late PM, to the EAL jet on the picture sometime Tuesday, then the EAL jet took off and started its journey to Addis Ababa.
2. Now let’s go to Bole airport-just as the EAL jet, carrying the coffin of the late PM arrives, allegedly from Brussels. This is where we have to pause and admire Bereket’s handiwork. If you didn’t know what was going on, and just turned on your TV and flipped the channel to ETV-you really would have thought that you are watching the Ethiopian version of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. The visual was just fantastic. The stewardess opens the door, and miraculously, we see a lot of people (according to ETV anchor-‘Kewuchi Ager Yemetu Betesebocina Zemedoch’-that is families and relatives living abroad) deplaning. I counted over 60 people before the camera changed focus to the scene on the ground. Now the million dollar question is: where did all these people come from and how exactly did they manage to get on the same plane carrying the PM’s coffin? Was the EAL jet flying around all over Europe, picking up people here and there, like a city bus? If it did, then it is safe to assume that these people were picked up before the coffin and they were on the plane when the hearse arrived at the airport in Brussels. Now, how come, ITBN didn’t show footage of some of them, at least waving and crying, when the hearse carrying the coffin arrived at the airport? We all know, as Ethiopians, we just don’t sit around quietly on a plane, when a coffin of a loved one or relative, who just died that same day, arrives.
3. On the streets (Bole Road): What was the deal, with that spontaneous outflow of grief from Addis youth? Was it real or staged? Who came up with the slogan ‘Meles! Almotem!’, ‘Ambesaw Almotem!’ while escorting a Humvee carrying the dead man’s coffin? What about all the firecrackers and candles, where did all that stuff come from? We know that the majority of youngsters in Ethiopia today, consider themselves lucky, to have a decent meal or two a day, and don’t have disposable income to waste on firecrackers and candles, for a leader they despised while alive. Is it then safe to assume that, this was a staged event organized by Kebele/School Youth associations and candles/firecrackers were handed out by the ruling party’s extension arm-the Kebele?
4. Now let’s go to the PM’s Residence-and witness ‘Welcome to Our Cold House and Empty Beds’ drama by the Ex-First Lady. Strangely enough, we see all the family members, relatives, friends and colleagues of the first family, awaiting the arrival of the coffin and its entourage from Bole. Again, who werre those people that we saw getting of the plane at Bole and when and how did they got on that fateful plane? These are obviously questions that people will be asking in the coming days and months, and we are hoping Ato Bereket will be able to enlighten us.
Respectfully,
-Surafel