Ethiopians went to the polls on Monday with the Prosperity Party (PP) of incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed set for a landslide win.
In power since 2018, Abiy is criticised for growing authoritarianism and a crackdown on dissent, in contrast to his early years in power when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for mending relations with neighbouring Eritrea.
Opposition parties and analysts fear this election will be even less open than previous votes with the opposition in disarray and the country facing multiple internal conflicts and ethnic divisions.
The election is "likely to be among the least competitive of the seven national elections held since multiparty democracy was introduced in 1991," Ahmed Soliman and Abel Abate Demissie of the Chatham House think tank wrote last week.
Abiy's PP won 96 percent of the seats in the last election in 2021.
