A big problem in Ethiopia because of the elections

After the spread of the Corona virus, the decision came to postpone indefinitely the general elections in Ethiopia, which were scheduled to be held in August 2020, according to the Ethiopian constitution.

With the end of the current parliament's term, which ends in October 2020, Ethiopia will witness a constitutional vacuum, as there is no text dealing with this. This is what made the current government relying on "constitutional interpretation."

There is internal objection from the Tigray Liberation Front, which announced the rejection of the postponement, and decided to hold elections within the Tigray region, which formed a crisis on the part of the Ethiopian Election Board. These objections culminated in the presentation of “Khairiya Ibrahim,” a member of the Executive Council of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, her resignation from the Federal Council, two days before the Council submitted its report on the postponement of the elections. She accused the current regime of "rapidly turning into dictatorship." And that the ongoing deliberations on the constitutional crisis are just a play prepared by the Prosperity Party.

The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights believes that these unconstitutional attempts by the current regime inflame and charge internal tensions between citizens, and seek only to prolong the current power. Maat Foundation calls on the Ethiopian authorities to work on making constitutional options by party consensus, to prevent entering another political battlefield that increases tensions, and eliminates the political gains that have been achieved, by returning to the same practices of previous dictatorial regimes.

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