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Since the new constitution of Ethiopia enacted in 1995, Ethiopia's legal system consisted of federal law with bicameral legislature. [1] The House of People's Representatives (HoPR) is the lower chamber of bicameral legislature of Federal Parliamentary Assembly with 547 seats and the House of Federation with 108 seats, the former vested on executive power of Prime Minister and the Council of ...
The FDRE Constitution also provides independent non-state or unofficial laws based on framework of customary and religious laws in some field of social activity. Article 34(5) defined that "This Constitution shall not preclude the adjudication of disputes relating to personal and family laws in accordance with religious and customary laws, with ...
Opponent of Article 3 defined different logo of the flag and subsequent laws by rejecting it. The Ethiopian government also failed to enforce its own constitutional laws in this regard. [11] Article 3(3) authorized over the members of Federation to use their respective flags and emblems, [12] which was opposed by pro-unitary groups. Few ...
Article 3(3) states the federal court authority over judicial system assigned by the Constitution and federal law. Similarly, Article 5 also codified the authority over civil law "cases to which a federal government organ is a party; suits between persons permanently residing in different regions; cases regarding the liability of officials or ...
After the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was toppled, the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that was dommainted by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), formed the federal system that exists today. [2] Within the three year transition from the PDRE, the 1995 constitution was drafted and developed.
Until the adoption of the first of these constitutions, the concepts of Ethiopian government had been codified in the Kebra Nagast (which presented the concept that the legitimacy of the Emperor of Ethiopia was based on its asserted descent from king Solomon of ancient Israel), and the Fetha Nagast (a legal code used in Ethiopia at least as ...
The government's primary concern was proclaimed to be the country's development through the implementation of the Program for the National Democratic Revolution, which Kasahun Ankosa had proclaimed in a speech on 20 April 1976. In the process, it was assumed that the material and technical bases necessary for establishing socialism would be ...
The government of Ethiopia is structured in the form of a federal parliamentary republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government while legislative power is vested in the Parliament. The Judiciary is more or less independent of the executive and the legislature.