Abiy Ahmed is likely to continue his role as Ethiopia's prime minister after his Prosperity Party won another comfortable parliamentary majority in the June 1 elections. The party took nearly 90% of seats.
The results were released on Sunday after voting in several polling stations was suspended due to security issues, and no voting took place in northern Tigray for a second consecutive election. Abiy is now awaiting the formality of election by the House of Peoples' Representatives.
Abiy burst onto the world stage as a young, dynamic leader of Ethiopia in 2018. But his journey to the top job began long before that.
In the 1990s, he had a career with the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), before leading Ethiopia's cyber-intelligence service INSA. He first became known nationally as a politician in 2010, when he rose through the ranks of the Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO). In 2018, the party changed its name to Oromo Democratic Party (ODP).
He was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives, and in 2016 became the Minister of Science and Technology in Addis Ababa. However, he soon returned to his home province of Oromia to serve as head of the OPDO Secretariat.
