Ethiopia Insight published on 17 December 2020 a commentary titled "Conflict in Tigray Is about TPLF, Not Ethnic Federalism" by Teshome M. Borago, accountant and political analyst.
The author argues that if there is an ideological basis to the conflict in Tigray, it is not the TPLF's commitment to ethnic federalism, but rather the TPLF's opposition to a new multiparty and pluralist Ethiopia where its political power monopoly will be threatened.