The Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) (), formerly known as the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), was a

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. The party was one of four members of the

Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; ) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1989 to 2019. It consisted of four political parties: Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Amhara ...

(EPRDF) that ruled Ethiopia at the time. In 2012, the party chairman was

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, who replaced

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in 2010. In November 2019, prime minister

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, holding the role of EPRDF chair, unified the constituent parties of the coalition into a new party called

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History

The Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (EPDM), the precursor of ANDM, was founded by former members of the

Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) (), informally known as Ihapa (), is the first modern political party in Ethiopia. Established in April 1972, it aimed to turn Ethiopia into a democratic republic. Both the EPRP and another pa ...

(EPRP) and supported by the

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(TPLF). It was originally based in Waghimra in

Wollo Province Wollo (Amharic: ወሎ) was a historical province of northern Ethiopia. During the Middle Ages this province name was Bete Amhara and it was the centre of the Solomonic emperors. Bete Amhara had an illustrious place in Ethiopian political and ...

, and waged an armed struggle against the

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in that area starting in 1982. EPDM convened its first organizational conference in Jerba Yohannes, Waghimra, in November 1983. During the Ethiopian Civil War, its military headquarters were located in a cave in

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. In 1988, EPDM and its long-time ally TPLF united to form the

(EPDRF). At its third organizational conference in 1994, the EPDM changed its name to Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), marking its transition from a pan-Ethiopian movement to an ethnic nationalist party. In the May 2010 Regional State Council elections, the ANDM won all 294 seats in the Amhara Region. On its annual conference on 30 September 2018, Amhara National Democratic Movement changed its title to Amhara Democratic Party.

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History

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