Irreconcilable
Difference and a Moment of truth for AFD
Had the CUD not betrayed democracy and had
it joined the parliament fom the getgo, EPRP and its rusty politics of the
70’s would have been thrown to the dust bin of history. Diaspora CUD
has once again managed to put itself in an odd alliance and see its only
motto of the 2005 election abused by the UEDF Diaspora. Election takes creating
citizen's awareness, mass organization, making sure they know the issue,
and the candidates etc . Diaspora UEDF, who was preaching day and night
the impossibility of holding an election under EPRDF and the Constitution,
now comes to reap the fruits of the election to its twisted end. Diaspora
UEDF knows no democracy, democratic election or democratic process, only
mechanisms of paralyzing a government to its eventual downfall. The reason
Diaspora UEDF has come to be more advocate of the “2005 August victory”
than the CUD, an election it did not participate to begin with, is because
it can effectively sideline the OLF. With “2005 August victory”
comes the removal of the Constitution, the replacement of federal structure
by unitary form of government. The OLF has no interest about “August
victory” to speak of since “August victory” means defeat
of the policy it is pursuing by implication. Instead, the OLF, who has managed
to cut the CUD to size as representative of the Amhara, has made the Ethiopian
constitution as the bases to move forward because the Constitution guarantees
the OLF a federal structure and the right of nations and nationalities.
The true believers of the CUD, those who believe CUD to be multiethnic,
flag waving coalition(disciples blind to AEUP’s “Ab”-
as in the father- role in CUD), could not make sense of the fact that their
party has allied itself with secessionist groups. The Diaspora leaders of
the CUD are acting more like a civic organization than astute political
leaders, and the OLF is becoming too slick for the test of CUD supporters.
CUD’s self appointed leaders can not go on in denial of the hole they
have dug themselves into and the OLF can not hold patronizing attitude for
long. For now, Master anarchist UEDF Diaspora, while having no discernible
support inside the country to speak of, is given a life line to play the
rusty tune of “kewte Ken” and the mirage politics of transitional
govenment. |