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Viewing cable 08ADDISABABA1531, EPRDF MOVES TO FURTHER STRIP POWER OF FORMER CUDP

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08ADDISABABA1531 2008-06-04 14:37 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Addis Ababa
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P 041437Z JUN 08
FM AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADDIS ABABA 001531 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR AF/E, DRL FOR SJOSEPH 
LONDON, PARIS, ROME FOR AFRICA WATCHER 
CJTF-HOA AND CENTCOM FOR POLAD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM KJUS ET
SUBJECT: EPRDF MOVES TO FURTHER STRIP POWER OF FORMER CUDP 
 
REF: ADDIS ABABA 00145 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00001531  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) At the May 21 quarterly address by PM Meles Zenawi 
to Parliament, leader of the former Coalition for Unity and 
Democracy Party (CUDP), Temesgen Zewdie, attempted to present 
his response and questions following the PM's speech, as is 
traditionally allowed for party leaders.  However, before he 
could complete his question, which was to be about recent 
reports of Ethiopian farm land along the Ethio-Sudanese 
border being confiscated by Sudanese military groups, he was 
cut off by the Speaker and told that he will not be allowed 
to address Parliament. 
 
2. (SBU) In a May 22 meeting with Poloff, Temesgen explained 
that following the May 21 Parliamentary session he was called 
into the office of chief Ethiopian People's Revolutionary 
Democratic Forces (EPRDF) ruling party whip Shiferaw Jarso. 
Shiferaw allegedly told Temesgen that he and those 
approximately 40 MPs that are aligned with him will no longer 
be allowed to sit on standing committees and Temesgen will no 
longer have the right (unless special permission is granted) 
to address Parliament, due to the fact that he no longer 
represents a block of over 10 MPs with a registered party 
name - the two key requirements for such privileges in 
Parliament. (Note: In January the National Electoral Board of 
Ethiopia (NEBE) granted the CUDP name to Temesgen's nemesis 
Ayele Chamisso who is not a member of Parliament and has the 
support of only two MPs (reftel). On February 14, Temesgen 
and 40 other MPs elected under the CUDP name signed a letter 
that they are not aligned with Ayele Chamisso. End Note.) 
Shiferaw told Temesgen that since he and his followers had 
renounced the party name under which they had been elected, 
they would from then on be considered as non-aligned 
individual MPs. Shiferaw also instructed Temesgen to vacate 
his office in Parliament as such is a privilege reserved only 
for the leaders of recognized parties or blocs.  (Note: Of 
the remaining 71 seats won by the CUDP in the 2005 election, 
only 2 have declared allegiance to Ayele, approximately 20 
aligned with United Ethiopian Democratic Party (UEDP-Medhin) 
party leader Lidetu Ayalew, and the remaining either never 
took their seat in Parliament, or later fled the country. End 
Note.)  Temesgen further told Poloff that following the 
meeting with Shiferaw, he was later called into the office of 
the Speaker of Parliament, Teshome Toga, and told the same. 
 
3. (SBU) Temesgen reported that he later heard from Oromo 
Federal Democratic Movement (OFDM) party leader Bulcha 
Demeksa, saying that he and his party had also been stripped 
of these rights, due to the fact that he had less than 10 MPs 
aligned with his party (following the death or disappearance 
of several MPs in the last three years).  Additionally, Dr. 
Beyene Petros, leader of the United Ethiopian Democratic 
Forces (UEDF), said that he had been similarly threatened and 
was told that his party officially has only 12 MPs (just over 
the necessary threshold), not the 48 he claims.  Teshome 
explained that the other 36 MPs are considered to be aligned 
with Tolossa Tesfaye of the Oromo National Congress (ONC), 
not UEDF coalition partner and head of the Oromo Peoples 
Congress, Dr. Merera Gudina. (Note: In reality, Tolossa only 
has one MP that has pledged allegiance to him - the rest have 
pledged support to Dr. Merera and the UEDF. End Note.) 
 
4. (SBU) COMMENT: The EPRDF's move to strip Temesgen and his 
followers, as well as the OFDM, of their party rights in 
Parliament is the latest in a long series of maneuvering to 
cut Ethiopian opposition parties off at the knees.  Though 
the EPRDF now employs more subtle techniques, such as using 
the NEBE to weaken parties by asigning opposition party names 
to EPRDF-associated "opposition" groups, the effect on 
opposition parties is as crippling as jailing party leaders. 
The net effect to Parliament is very little organized 
opposition to the EPRDF - Ayele (himself not an MP) and 
Tolossa have nearly no following, leaving only Lidetu Ayalew 
as the primary opposition party leader in Parliament, and 
most voters would no longer consider him "opposition" because 
of his strong support for the EPRDF.  The remaining seats won 
by the opposition are filled by what are now considered 
"independent" MPs, or were filled in the recent April 
by-elections by the EPRDF in the by-elections (for those 
seats not occupied or vacated later by fleeing MPs). As the 
2010 federal elections draw closer, the EPRDF continues to 
progressively show less and less tolerance for political 
opposition. Political space continues to shrink, painting a 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00001531  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
very dim picture for anything resembling a democratic system 
or free elections on the horizon. The US, UK and French 
Ambassadors stressed the need for political space with the 
PM.  Ambassador stressed in a meeting of Ambassadors hosted 
by the UN that if a tough coordinated effort is not initiated 
by the entire diplomatic corps now, the 2010 elections will 
not see much opposition gain.  Frustration will increase and 
violence will be highly likely. END COMMENT. 
YAMAMOTO