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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)However, the friction between the socialist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which was active in Ethiopian politics until 2019, and the Ethiopian Federal Government, has deepened since last year, especially due to the postponement of the elections.
the TPLF's original aim of creating a "popular revolutionary democracy".
TPLF had long subscribed to Marxist-Leninist ideology… Originally formed as a Marxist-Leninist party in 1975, the TPLE pursued a separatist goal for Tigre Province until the late 1980s.
TPLF had long subscribed to Marxist-Leninist ideology… Originally formed as a Marxist-Leninist party in 1975, the TPLE pursued a separatist goal for Tigre Province until the late 1980s.
Adopting the ideological jargon of 'revolutionary democracy', the party leadership managed to come up with an ideology to maintain its power position in the party, not necessarily changing its core socialist values.
Likewise, Ethiopia has been ruled for decades by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of mostly ethnoregional political parties, dominated by the socialist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Both combined nondemocratic traits with ethnofederalism.
Civil war erupted in November 2020 after the leftist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was accused of attacking a military base in the northern part of the country.
Almost all leaders of the TPLF thought of themselves as Marxist revolutionaries. Among them, an informal group which later named itself the 'communist core' within the TPLF was constituted by Abbay Tsehaye, Meles Zenawi and Sibhat Nega.
Here probably lies the reason why the militant elite of the TPLF was seen to require an ultraleftist party.
Mr. Tedros is a microbiologist, not a physician. He served as health and foreign minister as a member of Ethiopia's ruling leftist Tigray People's Liberation Front, which ousted military rule over 20 years ago.
As a member of the left-wing Tigray People's Liberation Front, he rose through Ethiopia's autocratic government as health and foreign minister. After taking the director-general job in 2017, he tried to install Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador.