Ethiopia's ruling coalition says it will choose a successor to late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a meeting that begins Friday.

The council of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front is set to hold a two-day meeting in Addis Ababa where it will pick a new chairperson.

A spokesman tells VOA the chairperson will “most likely” be Ethiopia's new prime minister as well.

Mr. Meles led Ethiopia for 21 years before his death last month from an unidentified illness.

Officials initially said Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn would take his place, but Hailemariam was never sworn in.

Source: http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/ ... successor/

i wonder whether there will ever be an end to TPLF lies. first, just days after the frog was announced dead, Hailemariam was scheduled to sworn in the `parliament´ as a new PM. Then it was cancelled citing `the funeral of Abune`. later TPLF propoganda machines suddenly started to refer Hailemariam as °deputy`, and finally they are admitting Hailemariam was never planned to replace the frog. to make matters worse, they are telling us the frog was visionary. i say, visionary my a$$! he can´t even prepare them for a simple issue of succession. aye wirdet. i can not imagine how these people have managed to rule Ethiopia this far.