Published 18.09
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party wins a landslide victory in the election in Ethiopia.
The Prime Minister’s party, the Prosperity Party (PP), gets close to 90 percent of the seats, the country’s election commission said on Sunday.
The election, which was held on June 1, was organized in 501 of the country’s total of 547 constituencies. No elections are held in the region of Tigray, where a brutal war between local rulers and Ahmed’s central government since 2020 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018 and the following year received the Nobel Prize for the peace agreement with neighboring Eritrea, but since then he has been criticized for his rule becoming increasingly authoritarian and violent.
Critics believe that elections in Ethiopia have never been free and fair in practice with incumbents always winning by large margins.
