Ethiopian Democratic League

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The Ethiopian Democratic League ( Amharic የኢትዮጵያ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ሊግ , transcribed YeItyopya Démokrasiawi Lig ; English Ethiopian Democratic League , abbreviation EDL ) is an opposition political party in Ethiopia .

During the national elections to the Ethiopian legislative parliament , the general elections in Ethiopia on May 15, 2005 , the party was one of the member parties within the electoral alliance alongside the United Ethiopian Democratic Party - Medhin Party and the party Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice the coalition for unity and democracy , which emerged as the strongest opposition alliance together with a total of 109 of the 527 parliamentary seats in the House of Representatives . Of these 109 seats, the Ethiopian Democratic League won a total of 2 seats, one of which was given to a woman and one to a man.

At the end of September 2005, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy announced that it would be merging into a single party, the Unity for Democracy and Justice .

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  1. ↑ Website of the Ethiopian Parliament ( Memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) (engl.)
  2. ↑ Angela Benidir-Müller: Refugee Report on Ethiopia. (PDF) Swiss Refugee Aid SFH, October 10, 2006, accessed on November 8, 2018 .