Politics in Tigray is more interesting for all the wrong reasons, and the signs are not reassuring
Mekelle: 29 December 2023 (Tigray Herald)
By Medhane Tadese
Politics in Tigray is more interesting for all the wrong reasons, and the signs are not reassuring. But, at least, there is politics, with ideological and strategic severity and visible political contestation in its organised manifestations. Critical issues are being confronted in a fundamental way including the respective roles of the army and the party in politics and their relations with the state.
An unprecedented outburst of political interest has occurred in recent years while public opinion becoming a political force in a permanently shifting political discourse. It has become extremely intense producing all sorts of commentaries during the last year than in all the last 35 years, a sort of revolution in Tigrean politics. A noticeable variance from the depravity in Ethiopia where a multitude of parties are parodies or degenerate mutants of individuals and fraud religious audiences.
In comparative as well as practical, psychological, and political terms Tigray seems to be in a separate political experiment solidified by the post-Pretoria siege.
