Nine veteran members of the TPLF, including Seyoum Mesfin, Berhan
G/Kirstos, Sebhat Nega, Arkebe Equbay and Zeray Asgedom have left
the organization, according to sources from Addis ababa.
Concluding its ninth convention, the senior partner in the ruling
coalition, TPLF has elevated for the first time since its formation, a
woman to its political bureau, making two of the nine politbureau
members women, Fortune learnt.
Tirfu Kidanemariam, who was vice chairperson of the Tigray Women
Association (TWA) in 2008, has now joined Azeb Mesfin in the TPLF’s top
political body. Azeb was elected to the political bureau in 2010, the
first woman to ever make it that high in the TPLF. Tirfu is a spouse to
the party’s chairman and chief of the regional administration, Abay
Woldu. She is head of TPLF’s all too powerful organisational affairs
bureau. She has been elected to the central committee of the TPLF since
1999, and has also served as head of the region’s justice bureau.
As expected by those following the region’s political development,
Tsegaye Berhe, a former chief of the regional state and current chairman
of the National Security Council; and Abadi Zemo, Ethiopia’s ambassador
to Sudan, have left the political bureau, upon their request, according
to sources. They are replaced by Alem G. Wahid and Gebrehawariya Woldu,
both veteran political operatives of the regional administration,
heading various administrations at zone levels, according to our
sources.
TPLF central committee, which has seen the departure of nine of its
veteran members such as Seyoum Mesfin, Arkebe Oqubay, Brehane
Gebrekirstos and Zeray Asgedom, has left its chairman and deputy intact.
Abay Woldu and Debretsion Gebremikael will continue to lead the party
as chairman and deputy.
The three other parities in the coalition are holding their
respective congresses, thus elections to their political bureaus is
expected soon. Political pundits are expect hardly any change in the
compositions of their senior leaders, however.
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