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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 The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; am, የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝቦች አብዮታዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ግንባር, translit=Ye’Ītiyop’iya Ḥizibochi Ābiyotawī Dīmokirasīyawī Ginibari) was an eth ...

, 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 Democratic F ...

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

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to right-wing , Amhara self-determination

Ethnic nationalism Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various politi ...

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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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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 , ,

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Tigray nationalism , 1975 ,

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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