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Under the current constitution, Ethiopia conducts local, regional, and federal elections. At the federal level, Ethiopia elects a legislature.The Federal Parliamentary Assembly has two chambers: the House of People's Representatives (ተወካዮች ምክር ቤት Yehizbtewekayoch Mekir Bet) with not more than 550 members as per the constitution but actually nearly 547 members, elected for ...
The 2021 Ethiopian general election to elect members of the House of Peoples' Representatives was held on 21 June 2021 and 30 September 2021. Regional elections were also held on those dates. The election was initially scheduled for 29 August 2020, [2] but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
In local elections, the EPRDF won more than 3.5 million of the 3.6 million open seats. The National Elections Board of Ethiopia reported the turnout was 93% of eligible voters. [5] Although this was the first election in Ethiopia since the tumultuous 2005 general election, several opposition parties sat out the election.
Abiy said last week the vote would be the "first attempt at free and fair elections" in Ethiopia, whose once rapidly growing economy has been hit by conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency would preside over the 1992 local elections as well as the 1994 Ethiopian Constituent Assembly election. [3] The election board was however made official by Article 102 of the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia. Article 102 Election Board
The election was considered illegal by the federal government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who postponed the 2020 general election earlier in the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] According to the election organisers, the Tigray People's Liberation Front won 98.2% of the vote and 100% of the 152 seats that were contested. [2]
The National Election Board expected to hire 18,885 people, and requested 541,270,104.82 birr to carry out the referendum. [7] 410.1 million birr was given. [16] 5,200 election observers from Ethiopia and elsewhere were expected. [15] 3,771 polling stations were set up, divided into 31 groups. [17] These are expected to see around 3 million ...
General elections were held in Ethiopia on 15 May 2005, for seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives and four regional government councils. Under pressure from the international community, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi promised that this election would be proof that more democracy would come in this multi-ethnic nation; international elections observers from the European Union (EU) and the ...