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The OFC and the Oromo Liberation Front were planning to participate in the election but withdrew, [12] claiming that the results would be rigged under the Prime Minister. [13] The election was a landslide victory for the Prosperity Party. [14] [15] On 30 September 2021, voting took place in 47 constituencies of the Harari, SNNPR, and Somali ...
A presidential election was held in Ethiopia on 7 October 2024 to elect its next president. [1]Diplomat and outgoing minister of foreign affairs Taye Atske Selassie was elected without contest to a six-year term amid tensions between former president Sahle-Work Zewde and prime minister Abiy Ahmed.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Escape the election madness with a shared platter of Ethiopian food and a side of togetherness.
The results of the election were announced one month after the election took place. [4] About 93.2 percent of Ethiopia’s 36.8 million registered voters participated in the parliamentary elections, [5] and nearly 1.4 million (3.3%) of the total votes cast for the election were deemed "invalid." This number exceeded even the number of votes ...
General elections were held in Ethiopia on 23 May 2010. There was a total of 4,525 candidates running for the open positions—which included 546 seats in the House of Peoples' Representatives; 1,349 of whom were members of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), 374 members of parties loosely aligned with the EPRDF, 2,798 members of opposition parties, and 4 ...