 He was the vice chairman of this coalition party until internal issues caused the coalition to break up.The coalition Kinijit party won 109 of the 546 seats in the government, however when Mr. Ayalew's UEDP-Medhin party split from Kinijit, it took some of their seats as well.UEDP-Medhin had won the majority of seats in the Addis Ababa council at the 2005 elections.