During a campaign tour of southern Oromiya, the Oromo People’s Congress party chairman, Merera Gudina, traveled to Moyale to speak at a campaign rally leading up to the May 23 national parliamentary election.
In a telephone interview with VOA, however, Merera said the gathering was aborted by police from the Somali region who dispersed the crowd.He questioned “who gave the authority to the Somali region police to interfere in Oromiya.
Merera said he and other party members had scheduled stops in 38 weredas in Oromiya but were only able to hold public meetings in six weredas.
In Addis Ababa, Sofiya Yelma, the vice chair of the Ethiopian Democratic Party told a rally on Sunday that if their party wins the election they will create a million new jobs every year for the next five years.She also pledged that the EDP “will call a national reconciliation conference, to bring peace to Ethiopia.”
