News: Board postponed candidate registration schedule for 2nd time; evaluating Afar region complaint over polling station listing under Somali region
Addis Abeba, March 01/2021 – Faced with delays of various types, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has, for the second time, postponed the candidate registration schedule, originally set to take place between 15 – 28 February 2021.
On February 27, the Board announced that it was extending the deadline by four more days to March 04, 2021. The NEBE attributed the decision to extend the deadline to its evaluation of delays observed in establishment of constituency offices throughout the country, which was originally set to take place between December 25/2020 to January 25/2021.
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Since 2018, the new administration of Ethiopia gained public support as it had shown a different position, political strategy, and structure than the previous administration. Most importantly, its apology and reconciliation call for political parties and opposition parties has created a great deal of political turmoil in the country, and has seen a vision of creating a multi-party nation, including the opposition parties. It has been three years since the political parties and politicians who were operating abroad agreed to return home and started the peaceful competition. These parties are the OLF, the ONLF, and the Ginbot 7 (which is later merged and formed Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice).
addisstandard 2021-02-17 ONLF’s Central Committee emergency meeting held between Jan 20-23 suspended Abdirhman Mahdi (right) and replaced him Rayaale Hamud (left) as interim chairman. Electoral Board has now invalidated the decision.
By Bileh Jelan
Addis Abeba, February 17/2021 – Barely two weeks after
Addis Standard’s in-depth report on the internal crack threatening the opposition Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) issued a statement clarifying its position on the ongoing infighting within the party.
In-depth: As part of AS investigation into the status of major opposition political parties in the run up to the June 05 elections, today we publish @BilehJelan s remarkable investigation into the dynamics within the oldest #Somali party, @ONLFofficialhttps://t.co/XB2siCWYV3 Addis Standard (@addisstandard) February 4, 2021
News: Electoral Board says five regional states fail to submit list of constituency offices per schedule, issues new deadline
By Siyanne Mekonnen
Addis
Abeba, February 10/2021 – The National Electoral Board
of Ethiopia (NEBE) has issued a statement requesting five regional states which
failed to submit list of constituency offices per the
Board’s timeline and issued deadline for cooperation.
According to the Board, Afar, Amhara, Sidama, Somali and Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Regional States have failed to submit the list of constituency offices as of the publishing of the notice on February 08.
The Board has initially set from December