{"id":277100,"date":"2019-05-25T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmpvdXJuYWxkdWNhbWVyb3VuLmNvbS9lbi9ldGhpb3BpYS1uaW5lLXBvbGl0aWNhbC1wYXJ0aWVzLWVzdGFibGlzaC1uYXRpb25hbC1mcm9udC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:53","slug":"nine-ethiopian-parties-signed-an-agreement-to-form-a-national-political-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277100","title":{"rendered":"Nine Ethiopian parties signed an agreement to form a national political front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 APA via Journal du Cameroun reported that nine Ethiopian political parties signed an agreement to create a front under the name Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice, often shortened in later coverage as a national civic coalition.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nine Ethiopian parties signed an agreement to form a national political front\" \/>\n<p>Party mergers and fronts were a central tactic in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years as EPRDF dissolved and new national brands tried to outgrow ethnic party machines.<\/p>\n<p>Whether such fronts became lasting vote machines or paper alliances mattered for the 2021 election season that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the nine-party front signing is a dated organizational checkpoint before later coalition reshuffles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalducameroun.com\/en\/ethiopia-nine-political-parties-establish-national-front\/\">Journal du Cameroun \/ APA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Nine political parties establish national front&nbsp;&nbsp;Journalducameroun.com &#8211; EnglishPublished on 25.05.2019 at 22h21 by APA News. Share. Nine political parties in Ethiopia on Saturday signed agreement to establish a front named \u201cEthiopi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754916,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277100\/revisions\/754916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}