The Afar National Democratic Party ( am, የአፋር ብሔራዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ; ANDP) was a
political party
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in
Ethiopia
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.
At the
legislative
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elections
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held on 15 May 2005, the party won 8 seats, all from the
Afar Region
The Afar Region (; aa, Qafar Rakaakayak; am, አፋር ክልል), formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people. Its capital is the planned city of Semera, which lies on the pav ...
. The current
Minister of Social Affairs
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and the Deputy Chairman of Pastoralist Affairs are members of the party.
It was reported that the ANDP was created in the latter half of 1999 from a merger of the
Afar Liberation Front
The Afar Liberation Front (abbreviated ALF) is an Afar political party and former militant group in Ethiopia. It fought the communist Derg government and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1975 to 1991. After the Ethiopian Civil W ...
(ALF) and the Afar People's Democratic Organization with three smaller organizations—the Afar National Liberation Front, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) and the Afar National Democratic Movement. However, there have been more recent reports indicating that the ALF and ARDUF continued operate as independent organizations.
In the August 2005 Regional assembly elections, the party won 84 out of 87 seats in the Afar Region.
In December 2019, the party merged with the
Amhara Democratic Party
The Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) ( am, አማራ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ), originally known as Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), was a political party in Ethiopia. The party was one of four members of the Ethiopian People's R ...
(ADP), the
Benishangul-Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front
The Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front (BGPDUF; am, የቤንሻንጉልና ጉሙዝ ሕዝቦች ዴሞክራሲዊ አንድነት) was a political party in Ethiopia. In the 2010 elections, the BGPDUF won 9 seats. In local elec ...
(BGPDUF), the
Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party
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(ESPDP), the
Gambela People's Democratic Movement
The Gambela Peoples’ Democratic Movement (GPDM, am, የጋምቤላ ሕዝቦች ዴሞክራሲያዊ ንቅናቄ, translit=Yä-Gambella Həzbočč Demokrasiyawi Nəqnaqe), also known as the Gambela People’s Democratic Movement or Gambella ...
Prosperity Party
The Prosperity Party ( am, ብልጽግና ፓርቲ, Bilits’igina Paritī; om, Paartii Badhaadhiinaa) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic F ...