{"id":351967,"date":"2021-03-09T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=351967"},"modified":"2021-03-10T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:30:45","slug":"prominent-opposition-figure-lidetu-ayalew-announces-withdrawal-from-participation-in-ethiopian-politics-due-to-medical-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/351967","title":{"rendered":"Prominent opposition figure Lidetu Ayalew announces withdrawal  from participation in Ethiopian politics due to medical problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent opposition figure Lidetu Ayalew said he was withdrawing from participation in the Ethiopian politics due to medical problems.<\/p>\n<p>In a long written\u00a0message, Lidetu claimed Ethiopia has faced existential\u00a0crisis and the ruling Prosperity Party is complicating the\u00a0situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to opposition leader, Ethiopia became terribly weak and reached to the point where it can not defend external aggression from neighboring Eritrea and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The country has experienced critical diplomatic pressure too due to misguided foreign policy of the Prosperity Party. The nation is nearing to collapse as its poor economy is heading to deep recession,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Lidetu claimed there will not be any political solution as long as PP remains in power and called for the establishment of a transitional\u00a0government in which all actors are involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent opposition figure Lidetu Ayalew said he was withdrawing from participation in the Ethiopian politics due to medical problems. In a long written\u00a0message, Lidetu claimed Ethiopia has faced existential\u00a0crisis and the ruling Prosperity Party is complicating the\u00a0situation. According to opposition leader, Ethiopia became terribly weak and reached to the point where it can not defend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":351968,"comment_status":"open","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-351967","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\/2021\/03\/Lidetu-2.png?fit=382%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1tyT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351967","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352051,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351967\/revisions\/352051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}