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Viewing cable 08ADDISABABA3372, OROMO OPPOSITION PARTIES FORM COALITION

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08ADDISABABA3372 2008-12-17 12:39 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Addis Ababa
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FM AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3116
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UNCLAS ADDIS ABABA 003372 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET
SUBJECT: OROMO OPPOSITION PARTIES FORM COALITION 
 
REF: REF: ADDIS 1746 
 
1. (SBU) The Oromo People's Congress (OPC) and the Oromo 
Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) recently formed a 
coalition which will allow them to combine resources, 
increase their strength, and better withstand government 
pressure in the run-up to the 2010 elections.  The decision 
to join forces comes from pressure from their Oromo 
supporters to unite.  The two parties are already fundraising 
together and will be establishing by-laws and a joint 
leadership by the end of December. 
 
2. (SBU) The parties claim to share a common history and 
similar vision for the future, and their strategy is to use 
"quiet resistance" and civil rights awareness-raising 
activities to gain support.  The OPC and OFDM decided to form 
a coalition, vice a merger, for two reasons.  First, they 
fear that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) will feel threatened 
by the merger and attempt to intervene and manipulate the 
party, so they are first testing the waters with a coalition. 
 This assumption is based on the experience of the Coalition 
for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party around the 2005 
elections.  When the CUD formed a coalition the GoE let them 
be, but when they started planning a merger the GoE promptly 
began to recruit and bribe non-committed individuals within 
the party essentially to gut the party from the inside.  The 
OPC and OFDM leadership feel it would be wise to move 
cautiously.  Also, because of the political party 
registration process, a merger would result in both parties 
permanently losing their names and emblems.  If the merger 
didn't work out, it would be very difficult to return to the 
status quo ante.  Second, there is not yet a sufficient level 
of trust between the two Chairmen. OPC Chairman Merera Gudina 
said that OFDM Chairman Bulcha Demeksa has drifted away from 
the consensus of the opposition on a few occasions (i.e. 
Bulcha sided with the EPRDF in the debate over whether the 
nomination list for the National Election Board should be 
limited) and is "not always predictable."  Though mutual 
respect does exist between the two, caution is being taken to 
avoid mistakes.  The OPC's membership in the United Ethiopian 
Democratic Forces (UEDF) coalition will not be affected by 
the formation of the OPC/OFDM coalition. 
 
3. (SBU)  The recent coalition formed by the OPC and OFDM 
will initiate the coming together of opposition parties, 
according to OFDM Chairman Bulcha Demeksa.  He noted that 
opposition parties are "highly demoralized" and in order to 
have a chance at defeating the EPRDF each party will have to 
sacrifice something for the greater good. OPC Chairman Merera 
Gudina stated, "the only game in town is unity."  Bulcha 
emphasized that the opposition parties are only asking for a 
level playing field, and urged donor countries to pressure 
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the GoE to open political 
space. 
 
4. (SBU) The OPC and OFDM are also part of another Opposition 
political coalition, the Forum for Democratic Dialogue in 
Ethiopia (FDDE, reftel), which has held weekly internal 
meetings for the past two months.  They plan to start holding 
public discussions by the end of December, and around May 
2009 they plan to start work on a Manifesto.  Currently the 
FDDE is comprised of OPC, OFDM, Southern Ethiopian People's 
Democratic Coalition (SEPDC), Ethiopian Social Democratic 
Party (ESDP), Arena Tigray (AT), Somali Democratic Alliance 
Forces (SDAF), and individual members Seeye Abraha and Negaso 
Gidada.  (Note: This is the first time that the Tigrayan, 
Amhara, and Oromo people have formed a political coalition 
within Ethiopia. End Note.) The Unity for Democracy and 
Justice (UDJ) party has not joined the coalition yet, but 
OFDM Chairman Bulcha Demeksa expects them to soon.  Since the 
UDJ is largely an Amhara group the FDDE could help them gain 
support in non-Amhara regions, and the significant funding 
the UDJ receives from the Diaspora would be an asset to the 
FDDE.  Bulcha said that if the UDJ joins the FDDE and the 
Forum emerges as a more explicit political coalition, rather 
than a dialogue forum as it is now, it could potentially be a 
strong opponent to the EPRDF in the 2010 elections. 
YAMAMOTO