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Additional budget to administer Ethiopia’s 7th General Election
Borkena
Toronto – The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) on Thursday announced that 50, 514,155 voters are registered for the 7th General election which is scheduled for June 2026.
About five million registered online and the remaining was in person, according to information from the Board.
23,123,426 registered voters are female and the remaining 27,390,729 are men. Numbers from special electoral districts including institutions of higher learning, camps for internally displaced people and the defense force camps are not included.
Based on the information available until this point, there are 614 electoral districts across the country.
MelatWork Hailu, the chairperson, said the registration has been extended for various reasons but it is not completed.
However, Coalition for Ethiopian Unity (CEU), a coalition of four opposition parties, requested extension of the registration citing an increase in the number of citizens who like to have voter registration cards and because there had been “problems” in the election registration process.
The Chairperson of the Board cited that there had been delays and disruptions in the process due to transportation and technical problems in the digital registration. In February this year, the Board was facing court charges in connection with its decision to make a different arrangement for electoral districts in “disputed areas” along the Tigray and Amhara region.
The Board stated that it is important the election is held on the scheduled date and that it needs an additional budget for it. It is unclear if the Board has submitted a formal request for it. The Ministry of Finance has not yet remarked on the matter.
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I trust our sister more than the men around her. I urge the opposition not to withdraw from the coming general election. You will be heard more as a parliamentarian than a member of a minuscule party chirping around the corner. I urge the regime to rein in certain thugs in your apparatus from allegedly harassing candidates from the opposition parties and independents. I am always in for peaceful struggle which is a long drawn out grueling task/effort. Good luck and peace y’all!!!
Obbo Ittu Aba Farda,
I one hundred percent agree with you that H.E. Melat Hailu is a very reliable and professional person. I have known her and her husband, Obbo Matiwos Gchile, for a long time. Her statement regarding the government tax process for customers is accurate and applies equally to everyone, including myself.
I once asked her if she might reconsider the allocation of tax for some honest people known to me, but she honestly explained that she could not intervene in such matters, even at my request as a community leader. She applied the rule of law fairly and equally, regardless of faith, race, or political affiliation. I think she is doing the right thing by following in the footsteps of H.E. Birtukan Mideksa, for whom I also have great respect because of her integrity.
Dear Degone Moretew,
I’m glad to hear that you know our sister and her family. Whenever I hear one of our is charge of an impactful position I always know that country is in very capable hands. She was preceded by the other Taytu incarnate the indomitable sister Birtukan Mideksa. I remember reading an article detailing what sister Birtukan did. While she was on business trip in the Somali Region, a member of an opposition group told her that the authorities in his town had prohibited/banned from registering as a candidate. What she did was glorious. She brought him with her to the capital and had him registered there as a candidate in his home town. That is how resourceful and quick thinking geniuses our women are. I have another one for you.
Who will forget our daughter Dr. Lia Tadesse who was the Minister of Health when the Covid-19 arrived in that country. She was not scared or lost her thinking balance. She stared at the deadly pathogen and it was the virus that blinked. Harvard could not wait until they put their hands on her. I heard that it is there where she is now. How about our other daughter, H.E. Frehiwot bint Tamiru who has been running the telecom behemoth spotless for years now? I’m sure there are many other accomplished women out there in the regime apparatus who toiled fixing the mess the men left behind. I hope sooner if not later our women will grab away the mantle of running that country peacefully in doing so and tell us men to go back, way back in line for the next 100 years. It looks the misogynist men around them have realized that and that is the reason why we see few or no women in the leadership of any political group. I think I talked enough for now.
Blessings to you and your family.
The latest poll conducted in secrecy by a qualified group shows the regime will lose the election by a landslide to the opposition groups in the next election. It shows among opposition parties, EPRP will win 412 sets in the lower House of Peoples’ Representatives and 82 seats in the upper House of Federation.