In the absence of a political consensus required for its optimal functioning, a society unavoidably faces major uncertainty. The experience from the past one year has demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that political reforms not founded on a new national political consensus are susceptible to the vagaries of power struggles that the absence of political consensus makes inevitable. The source of this risk is the fact that the transition and the changes are not grounded in a new national political consensus. Indeed, much of the troubles the country has experienced which threaten to undo all the great achievements registered are tied to this absence of a national political consensus. In a context of absence of political consensus, the issue is that the glass itself may as well have cracked.

Source: Ethiopian News June 26, 2019 13:41 UTC