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Ethiopia’s largest but struggling opposition party, the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), elected Gizachew Shiferaw, 59, as its leader, as the country builds up to an election scheduled for next year.
At meeting held last week here in Addis, the new party chief replaced Negasso Gidada, former president of Ethiopia, who served as president the UDJ for the past three years.
Gizachew beat three other candidates to the position in a poll of party members, even though Girma Seifu, the only opposition member of parliament, made a campaign on social media indicating that he would be a strong contender to win the party’s nomination.
Saying that decision has yet to be made over whether to boycott upcoming elections or not, the new party president promised to work on the proposed merger between the UDJ and other political parties such as Semaywi (Blue Party) and the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP).
Gizachew, an engineer by training and an assistant professor of chemical engineerin