Politics
Our Questions
Our cause is about defending and securing the continuity of Ge’ez identity, history, culture, and land by recognizing the state of Eritrea as nation state of Ge’ez people. The Ge’ez people are the only indigenous, overwhelming majority and only homogenous people of the nation state of Eritrea.
Because PFDJ is irrational and fundamentalist far left Universalist and internationalist group who committed ethnic cleansing of Ge’ez people in Eritrea and Tigray to achieve its political goals and because it believes only in force that the only option, we have is to use force to remove. We will use force to remove it.
National Strategic Interest
Reserving our ancient Culture and Identity means a have a Ge’ez state, empower families, have a national religion/faith, make education accessible to every citizen, and empower local community.
Have resilient Economy means full employment, equal opportunity and prosperity.
Have a superior Aga’azianist Army means pride, security and peace/stability.
Have liberal democracy with stakeholders capitalist system means have clear social contact between government/society and individual citizens and between past, present and future generations. To have complete separation of power within the executive, legislative and judiciary and clear division of autonomous authority between central government, regional government, and local government, and have political legitimacy by election and by delivering jobs, wealth, opportunity and security to the electorate.
Indigenous Law
We will bring back Higi Endaba (ሕጊ እንዳ’ባ) to realize our people struggle to be governed by its own indigenous laws. We will restore our ancient administrations system and laws in the highland and we will create a similar system in the lowlands for the ethnic minorities and new Tigrigna settlements. These local ancient and new administrations will have sovereignty on drafting and implementing their own law, managing their land, managing the economy, police force, managing their finance and saving, managing their school, health system, welfare system without interference from the central and regional governments. Eritrea will have three complete and separate government branches such as the legislative, the judiciary and the executive. And it will have three layers of government with clearly defined power and authority that are the central or national government, regional government that will be known as Mdre ምድረ (land of) and local government that will be known as Dembe ደምበ.
Government Brunches
The executive Branch
The executive branch will be divided into two the visionary leadership that is at the state level the democratically elected “The President ርእሰ ብሔር and Vice President of The State” in Mdre government level is the democratically elected head of the Mdre and his vice that will be known as Mdre Negasi ምድረ ነጋሲ at Dambe administration level will be the election administrator and his vice that will be known as Ra’asi Dambe ራእሲ ደምበ who will set up the goals. And objectives and the managerial leadership who executes/implement those objectives/goal set-up by the visionary leadership that is at the state level will be an elected or” The Prime Minister and Vice Prime Minister” in Mdre government “The Chief Executive and is deputy of Mdre with all its cabinet” in Dembe administrations will be “The Chief Executive and is deputy Dembe with all its cabinet “. The visionary leadership must be elected based on its vision, competence and reputation and must be Eritrean citizen while the managerial branch of the executive branch will be employed by the elected visionary leadership by its merit only, it will not be elected, couldn’t be served in the legislative branch at the same time, could be Eritrean or from any country that are not hostile to Eritrea culturally and economically. The visionary leadership doesn’t need the approval of the legislature on hiring of the managerial executive branch of government but the legislature has right to call in to their Baito’s and Shimagle (ሽማግለ) and ask and interrogate the visionary leadership and managerial leadership about how they conduct their works, the decisions and intentions. Any citizen or group can challenge the visionary leadership, managerial leadership and the legislative decisions in the courts if their decision is not constitutional. Only someone who serve 4 terms as ራእሲ ደምበ or anyone who serve two term as ምድረ ነጋሲ can stand for election to be ርእሰ ብሔር. Only someone who serve two terms as ራእሲ ደምበ can be elected as ምድረ ነጋሲ. Anyone who finish his national service, works 7 years outside politics and has no criminal record can be elected as ራእሲ ደምበ.
The Legislative Branch
The legislative main work is to make law and to police the two social contacts we will have by making the executive branch accountable. The state level legislature will have lower and upper houses. The lower will be known as ባይቶ Baito and the upper house will be known as ቤት ዓደ’ቦ Beit AdiAbo rough translation Home of the fatherland. All members of Baito will be elected democratically in transparent and accountable national election. 90% of ቤት ዓደ’ቦ will be appointed and 10% will be elected. The Baito objectives are to represent/advance and reflect their electorate current opinion and interest. The Beit AdiAbo objective is to protect and advance the interest of past and future generations. New legislation can start only in Baito by party (ሰልፊ), group or individual member of Baito but after approved by Baito it has to be approved by Beit AdiAbo before it became law. The Baito and Beit Adi’Abo will have a different joint committee that will monitor different government ministries and commissions decisions, actions and intentions. The Baito will have 165 members while Beit Adi Adi Abo will have 101 members. Nine of the 165 members of Baito will be representative of:
1) Agame - ዓጋመ 2) Shire-ሽረ Adwa -ዓድዋ 3) Tenbein - ቴንቤን
4) Aksum - አኽሱም 5) Kiltew Laalew - ኽልተ ላዕለዉ 6) RayaAzebo - ራያዓዘቦ
7) Enderta - እንድርታ 8) Wekayt - ወልቃይት ጸለምቲ
They will be elected democratically from Tigray to advance and protect their electorate cultural, political and economic interests in Eritrea.
Members of ቤትዓደ’ቦ will be the chief Keshi ቀሺ of the State, the chief Keshi of the four Mdri, 14 most populated Dembe chief Keshi’s, 9 top universities chancellors, 5 national media directors, 5 museum director, three muftis of the big ethnic minority, 4 retired army chief of staff’s, 2 navy retired chief, 2 ground forces retired chief of staff, 2 air force retired chief of staff, 2 retired foreign intelligence directors, 2 internal intelligence directors, 2 military intelligence chiefs, 2 retired presidents, 2 retired vice presidents, 4 retired Mdre Negasi’s, 10 retired business leaders of the top 10 big businesses, 5 directors of the top 5 scientific research centres, 5 directors of the top 5 engineering research centres, and 6 retire Ra’asi’s ራእሲ of the Dembe’s bordering Sudan and Djibouti.
The Mdre and Dembe governments’ legislative body will have only one house and they will be elected directly by the regional or local electorate democratically for limited period. The winning political party will appoint ራእሲ ደምበ or ምድረ ነጋሲ.
The Judiciary Branch
The judiciary branch main objective is interpreted and applies the law on behalf of The State and to provide a mechanism for the resolution of disputes under the doctrine the separation of powers.
We will have local and national laws with their own separate judiciary system. In state/national level they will be District court, court of Appeal and Supreme courts. The Supreme Court or constitutional court will deal primarily with constitutional law. The supreme courts Its main authority is to rule on whether or not laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether or not they conflict with constitutionally established rights and freedoms. It will have 9 judges who will be appointed by the president and must be approved by the majority vote of Baito and Beit AdiAbo members. The president of the Supreme Court will be named by the President of The State. A Supreme Court judge can be impeached by the Baito and removed from office if convicted by Baito Adi Aboባይቶዓዲ’ቦ only if he or she commits an impeachable offense (a crime, ethics violation, incompetence, etc.).
The high court judges will be appointed by the independent expert committee and they can be fired by high court judge’s independent ethics permanent committee. The high court judge’s independent ethics permanent committee will have 7 members and they will be appointed by the Supreme Court president.
In local level they will be Village court, District court, court of Appeal and Supreme courts. The Local judges will be appointed by the Local ራእሲ ደምበ and has to be approved by the Dembe Baito. The Dembe judges will be appointed by the ራእሲ ደምበ and has to be approved by Dembe Baito.
National Justiciability
Cases concerning national and regional (Mdre) laws (passed by national and Mdre Baito) and international treaties:
Cases that deal with the constitutionality of a law
Disputes between Dembes and Mdre governments
Local Justiciability
Cases concerning local Dembe’s law (laws passed by Dembe Baito)
Most family law cases (divorce, Custody), Contact disputes etc
Most Criminal cases
Level of Government
There will be three levels of government central ሃገራዊ/national, Midre ምድረ government (regional), and Dembe ደምበ administration (local).Each will have their own limited sovereignty power that will be defined in the national constitution.
The central government will be responsible for collecting income and sells of tax and distributing it, national defence, foreign relationship, evoking citizenship when necessary issuing currency and setting up interest rates, saving, managing and investing foreign reserve currency, promoting nationalism, setting-up national health insurance company, setting up and managing capital city, national library, setting up national sport teams and facilities in the capital, setting up museums, monuments, theatres, etc in the capital, regulating business relationship between Mdre’s, developing and writing national curriculum, monitoring and regulating schools, universities, colleges, small businesses, companies and NGOs.
The power of Mdre government will be building strategic infrastructure and industries like highways (more than three lane), airports, seaports, electric national grid, internet cables, water distribution system, universities, regional banks, managing and investing it returns from its investment and will have direct trade and investment relationship with foreign governments and trade and investment missions and tourism bureau in a foreign country. We will have four Mdre regional governments they are:
1, Mdre Bahri ምድረ ባሕሪ today Southern and central regions.
2, Mdre Yohannes ምድረ ዮሃንስ today Gash-Barka and Anseba regions.
3, Mdre Denden ምድረ ደንደን today Northern Red Sea region
4, Mdre Zion ምድረ ጽዮን today Southern red sea region
We will have 70 to 80 Dembe’s. The Dembe administration will have sovereignty on drafting or amending its local laws, setting up local business and property tax rate and distribute it, its own capital city, its own flag, managing and investing its citizens saving, granting citizenship, managing its land and environment, creating jobs, pension, writing local history, promoting local patriotism, setting up local museums and monuments, unemployed and disable welfare, building roads (less than two lanes),setting-up own local industrial zone that has migrant workers dormitory, building schools, hospitals, houses, sport facilities, building parks and cultural facilities, libraries, and local police force and local judiciary system.
The national government will have legal duty in the national constitution to hand 85% of education, housing, welfare, sport and culture and up to 40% of transport, trade and industry budget to local governments. Local governments will have legally binding duty to provide decent affordable housing, clean environment, high standard education and health care, crime and corruption free neighbourhood and a welfare for the unemployed, lonely elderly and disable local citizens.
The national government it will have a legally binding duty in the constitution to force citizens to save 10-20% of their income and the central government or employer will match/add exactly the same amount or more and it hand it over to the local government (Dembe) where the saver origin is or came from to be managed on behalf of the saver by local government set-up professional and independent saving and investment trust fund. Saver can use their saving for deposit when they buy house and buy health insurance before they retired or while still working.
Except the Mdre and Dembe administrations we will have five big metropolis cities. Assab, Massawa and Marsa Tecklai will be the big coastal cities while the new capital city Kidane and Nakfa will be the mountains big cities.
EPLF greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time it falls. EPLF organized the Tigrigna for its coming destiny. The main EPLF legacies are resilience and discipline of organization. Our future success will depend on our resilience and organizations. We are grateful for these factual and hard lessons.
Social Contacts
We need to renew our ancient two social contacts that are articulated in our ሕጊ እንዳ’ባ in our new nation’s constitution that we have to draft. Any country that has no clearly defined social contract that will be honoured voluntarily by the people and the rulers will have no social trust. Any country that has no social trust will have no real freedom, democracy, and soc