ETHZEMA criticizes gov t ahead of elections - capital Newspaper capitalethiopia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capitalethiopia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
James Jeffrey.
At time of writing national parliamentary elections are due to take place in Ethiopia on 21 June, after being twice delayed. While I can’t predict how the elections will go and who will win – though it appears extremely likely that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party will retain power – I can confidently predict that the elections will not include the region of Tigray. It’s a massive discrepancy – especially for the people of Tigray – for an election that is meant to be national in nature.
The absence from the ballot of one of the country’s 10 regions primarily stems from Tigray being mired in six months of catastrophic conflict since President Abiy launched a military offensive at the start of November against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The region’s election absence also signifies that, whatever the result of the national election, the issues that underpinned the breakout of the conflict, and which pervade fault
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Addis Abeba, May 26, 2021- The Federal Supreme Court Cassation Bench has rejected the appeal made by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to reverse the decision made by the Supreme Court allowing Hararis living outside the Harari Regional State to vote for National Assembly members.
The NEBE filed an appeal at the Cassation Bench after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Harari National Assembly (HNA) disputing the decision by the board to disallow the voting
The NEBE filed an appeal at the Cassation Bench after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Harari National Assembly (HNA) disputing the decision by the board to disallow the voting. The (NEBE) rejected the request made by Harari National Assemblyrequested to carry on a practice to elect their representative which was granted to them by the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) back in 1995. The NEBE said the request has no constitutional grounds and therefore will be terminated as of the 6th gene
15th May 2009 The other parties in Forum include: Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement; Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement led by member of parliament Bulcha Demeksa; Somali Democratic Alliance Forces; the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces which consists of the Ethiopian Social Democratic Party and Southern Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Congress (both chaired by Beyene Petros MP) plus the Oromo People s Congress of MP Merara Gudina; and Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) chaired by
Birtukan Mideksa.
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