{"id":11043,"date":"2018-12-22T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2018-12-23T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:48:35","slug":"us-embassy-in-ethiopia-slams-baseless-asserts-of-us-role-in-prime-minister-abiys-selection-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/11043","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy in Ethiopia slams \u2018baseless\u2019 asserts of US role in Prime Minister Abiy\u2019s selection processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/for-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11044\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/for-300x143.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/for-220x105.png 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/for.png 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abiy \u2019s Ahmed has been elected as chairman of the ruling party on March 27, 2018. During the EPDRF 11th Congress, PM Abiy Ahmed got 99% of the vote of EPDRF.  The PM has been doing great since he became PM and we believe that\u2019s the reason why he got more support also within the TPLF itself.  We don\u2019t know how America made the retired Tigrayan official to vote for the PM. But at a conference held by Mekele University over the weekend, Sebhat Nega, one of the retired Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) said that he is so sure about the US government\u2019s support for the PM\u2019s election. To the contrary, US Embassy spokesman in Addis Ababa, Nicholas Barnett said \u201cI want to be perfectly clear that any claims of U.S. involvement in the selection process of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia are completely baseless,\u201d speaking to VOA Horn of Africa Service. He said the U.S believes both in theory and practice in respecting Ethiopia\u2019s sovereignty and the right of individuals to vote for their own leaders. \u201cWe see Prime Minister Abiy\u2019s election as chairman of EPRDF as a reflection of people\u2019s interest for reform, representative political system, and participative democracy. We certainly support the Prime Minister\u2019s reform agenda. But we had no role to play in his election,\u201d. In addition, Sebhat said he had \u201cno doubt\u201d that the US government was involved on PM Abiy\u2019s election but he didn\u2019t offer any evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Abiy \u2019s Ahmed has been elected as chairman of the ruling party on March 27, 2018. During the EPDRF 11th Congress, PM Abiy Ahmed got 99% of the vote of EPDRF. The PM has been doing great since he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/11043\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}