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Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. Ethiopia has a

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. The legislature was mostly dominated by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, until it was succeeded by the

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 Democrati ...

in December 2019. The latest general election would have taken place in August 2020, but was postponed due to the

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. The most recent general election took place in 2021.

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Parliamentary parties

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National Movement of Amhara National Movement of Amhara ( am, የአማራ ብሔራዊ ንቅናቄ, translit=Ye’āmara Biḥērawī Nik’inak’ē, NaMA) is a right-wing Amhara ethnic nationalist political party created in June 2018 in Bahir Dar, capital of the Amh ...

am, የአማራ ብሔራዊ ንቅናቄ, translit=Ye’āmara Biḥērawī Nik’inak’ē ,

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Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ዜጎች ለማኅበራዊ ፍትህ, translit=ye-Ïtiyop'iya zēgochi le-mahiberawī fitih; abbreviated am, ኢዜማ, label=none, translit=EZEMA) is a liberal political party in ...

am, የኢትዮጵያ ዜጎች ለማህበራዊ ፍትህ, translit=Ye-Ïtiyop'iya Zēgochi Le-mahiberawī Fitih ,

Ethiopian nationalism Ethiopian nationalism, also referred to as Ethiopianism or Ethiopianness ( am, ኢትዮጵያዊነት, ''Ityop̣p̣yawinnät''), is a political principle centered on the unification of Ethiopian identity. Originated from throughout ancient hist ...

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Gedeo People's Democratic Party The Gedeo People's Democratic Party (Amharic: የጌዲዮን ህዝቦች ዲሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ, GPDP), also formerly known as Gedeo People's Democratic Organization (GPDO), is a political party in Ethiopia founded in 1992 as part of ...

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Tigray People's Liberation Front The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; ti, ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, lit=Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray), also called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitar ...

ti, ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, Ḥəzbawi Wäyanä Ḥarənnät Təgray , , Revolutionary democracy
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Other national parties

National parties without members of parliament include:

Other regional parties

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Defunct Parties

Notes

:1. In 2022, a party of the same name sent in application for a registration license, it was denied by The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) in August of the same year.

References

External links

List of registered political parties on the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs webpage
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Political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...