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Abiy’s Prosperity Party is set for another crushing majority

Behind a calm polling day is a harsher reality – fractured opposition parties, shuttered constituencies and insurgents determined to shoot their way to power

Lengthy queues formed before the polling stations opened at six in the morning on 1 June in national elections that are expected to produce an overwhelming majority for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party. They are playing out against sharply differing versions of political reality in the country. The federal government is struggling with spiralling prices, a paucity of foreign exchange, mounting debts of over US$36 billion, multiple regional insurgencies and deepening tensions with its neighbours, such as Eritrea, Egypt, Somalia and Sudan.

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