Mereja Forum

[Eripoblikan]

Is Isaias disregarding the people he leads?

01 Jan 2020 – (EP) Let’s start the new year with a bang. Eritrean President-For-Life Isaias Afwerki is unwilling to address the nation with the current affair since 2018.

His diehard supporters have puzzled the last two days by the president's decision to send a three-paragraph new year message instead of the usual yearly anticipated interview.

One of the president supporters wrote on Twitter, “Why our leaders are available to answer questions to everyone but Eritreans?”

He added, “I personally take it as a disrespect & contempt to the people potentially coupled with no realistic plan to make changes in all arena that can satisfy the needs of Eritreans.”
Another dissatisfied supporter wrote, “It is very sad to see him disrespecting our very patient Eritrean people by not addressing them through interviews.”

“Arrogance and disobedience to the people!!”, one angry PFDJ supporter wrote. “We are left in darkness due to lack of clear information from our government.”

In 2018, the dictator skipped the second part of an interview when the subject changed from international affair to internal.
The long-awaited interview in November 2018 to hear Eritrea’s economic and political plan since the peace agreement with Ethiopia was dashed when cancelled without explanation.

Mussie Sibhatu, a top Isaias supporter in Washington, DC questioned the president’s motive and tagged on Twitter the incompetent and clueless Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel who stupidly broadcasted a taped Western TV program instead of a live transmission of the 2020 new year celebration at midnight; the PFDJ supporter wrote “I don’t understand why PIA [President Isaias Afwerki] is avoiding interviews? Nov 2018 was the last interview he had. His first interview was about the peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. But his second interview about the internal affair was most eagerly anticipated by the people cancelled for an unknown reason.”

The People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) that only exist in the name as it has not held a national meeting since 2002 is the only political ‘party’ of the State of Eritrea.

In 1994, the PFDJ established a transitional 150-member National Assembly to determine the pending constitutions and elections. The assembly later chose the PFDJ's secretary-general and the former Eritrean Peoples’ Liberation Front (EPLF) leader, Isaias Afwerki as Eritrea's president and formed a cabinet around him.

In 1997, the National Assembly adopted a constitution for a multi-party democratic system. It scheduled multi-party elections for 1997. However, the conman used various excuses - most of us genuinely thought were valid reasons – to strengthen his power grip by removing elected member of the parliament and constitution that sets out the rights and duties of its citizens, source of legal authority, and defines the structure of government.

May 2020 be THE year...

[Afdeyu]

His worshippers might miss him, but no body in Asmara watches his ajewjew Cold War boring analysis. People want to hear when he’s going to allow us to build homes, businesses, create jobs for our people by reviving the private sector economy, but he doesn’t have anything to offer for the people. (Including his worshippers here are not allowed to do anything in Eritrea)

No true Eritrean misses his ajewjew except his worshippers ( now he doesn’t even care about his followers, because they are die hard believers who would hurt their own family and interest if it helps their idol god Isaias)

2020 is a year of change and progress
Happy new year

[Justice Seeker]

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