{"id":277212,"date":"2019-05-26T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8yNy90cGxmLWxhc3QtaHVycmFoLW9yLWxhdGVzdC13aGltcGVyLWZvci1hLWNvbWViYWNrLXRvLXBvd2VyLWluLWV0aGlvcGlhL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:15","slug":"a-borkena-commentary-asked-if-the-tplfs-lobbying-push-was-a-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277212","title":{"rendered":"A Borkena commentary asked if the TPLF\u2019s lobbying push was a last hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Borkena published a commentary by Alemayehu G. Mariam asking whether the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front\u2019s reported outreach to Washington lobbyists marked a last hurrah or a fresh try at national comeback.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-600493\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tigray-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Borkena commentary asked if the TPLF\u2019s lobbying push was a last hurrah\" \/>\n<p>The piece reflected a fierce diaspora and Addis Ababa debate over TPLF strategy after Abiy Ahmed\u2019s rise dismantled the old EPRDF balance that had favored Tigrayan federal power.<\/p>\n<p>Lobby talk, street rumor, and opposition media often mixed in that season, but the archive still shows how early the TPLF\u2013federal rupture was being framed as existential.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the last-hurrah commentary dates one loud reading of TPLF weakness before the later war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/27\/tplf-last-hurrah-or-latest-whimper-for-a-comeback-to-power-in-ethiopia\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary : TPLF&#8217;s Last Hurrah or Latest Whimper for a Comeback to Power in Ethiopia?&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comAlmariam Published on May 26,2019. Word on the street is that the Tigrean People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF) is talking to \u201cK\u201d Street lobbyists t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":600493,"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-277212","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\/2026\/09\/tigray-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277212","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=277212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754922,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277212\/revisions\/754922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}