Nairobi. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won another large parliamentary majority in this month's elections, results released by the national election board on Sunday showed.
Abiy, whose party had been widely expected to dominate the elections against a fragmented opposition, was appointed in 2018 following mass protests against the long-ruling EPRDF coalition. He created the Prosperity Party the following year.
Abiy's party won 438 seats, roughly 90% of those for which results were announced at a ceremony broadcast on Facebook. It needed 274 to secure a majority.
Not all the lower house of parliament's 547 seats were up for grabs, as voting did not happen in the Tigray region and some parts of Amhara.
At the last elections in 2021 the Prosperity Party won a similar percentage of the available seats.
