Ethiopia backs executive presidency plan, raising fears of power grab | Africanews

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/31/ethiopia-backs-executive-presidency-plan-raising-fears-of-power-grab/

Ethiopia’s national dialogue has endorsed constitutional changes that would merge the roles of prime minister and president into a powerful executive presidency, a move critics warn could allow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to further consolidate his control after his party’s landslide election victory.

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dtrain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

Power grab: all the cool countries are doing it. /s

Nautalax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d

Kind of surprised that he’s still giga-popular given the massive war in Tigray a while back and the partially related issue of vast swathes of rebel control in Amhara, Oromo and Tigray areas but then again a couple years of 9% GDP growth can smooth over a lot of problems I guess