Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister has secured a decisive political victory after his Prosperity Party retained its overwhelming majority in parliament. The result paves the way for him to begin another term in October.
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The Prosperity Party won 438 of the 501 contested parliamentary seats, a result celebrated by Abiy’s supporters as a mandate to continue his economic reforms and modernisation agenda.
Abiy came to power in 2018 during a wave of anti-government protests and was initially praised as a reformer who promised to heal Ethiopia’s deep political fractures. His efforts to end decades of hostility with neighbouring Eritrea earned him the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Yet the promise of peace was later overshadowed by a devastating civil war in the northern Tigray region and a growing number of armed insurgencies elsewhere in the country.
The security situation remains particularly unstable in the Amhara and Oromia regions, where armed groups continue to challenge the federal government. The Fano militias in Amhara and the Oromo Liberation Army, which seeks greater autonomy for the Oromo people, rejected both the election and its outcome.
