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Ethiopia

Prosperity Party

Developmentalism / centralism

PP

Ethiopia’s governing party, formed by merging the ethnic parties of the previous ruling coalition into a single national organisation — a change its opponents read as reversing ethnic federalism.

Founded
2019
Positions as of
2021 election programme
Last verified
01

What does it believe?

  • Nation and the world

    Replaced the ethnically federated ruling coalition with a single national party, a central point of conflict with regional movements.

  • The state in the economy

    Opened telecoms, banking and logistics to private and foreign investment after decades of state monopoly.

02

Where it sits on each dimension

Wealth and inequality

52

Evidence: Documented

The state in the economy

40

Evidence: Documented

Personal liberty

18

Evidence: Well documented

Nation and the world

78

Evidence: Well documented

Power and its limits

18

Evidence: Well documented

Environment and growth

58

Evidence: Documented

Sources

Sources are prioritised in this order: official manifestos, official party documents, parliamentary records, academic research, then high-quality reporting.

  • Party Programme and Statute · Prosperity Party
  • Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda · Government of Ethiopia · 2019