Ethiopia is going to the polls today in the first election since a disputed 2005 poll ended in violence. Polls opened at 6 a.m. local time. Some 32 million Ethiopians will make their choices at more than 43,000 polling stations across Africa's second most populous country. According to reports, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is widely expected to be re-elected, with the opposition seen as divided and disorganised. There are some 60 opposition parties, but eight of the largest have formed an alliance known as Medrek. The opposition says the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF has increasingly tightened its grip on power since 2005, and routinely intimidates and jails it critics. In 2005, riots broke out in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa after EPRDF was declared winner. The ensuing violence led to the death of 200 people. The opposition had claimed the 2005 election was rigged in favour of Zenawi. <br/>