Transitional government of Ethiopia
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Republic of Ethiopia 1991–1995 |
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| Capital | Addis Ababa | ||
| Form of government | republic | ||
| Form of government | Transitional government | ||
| head of state | Tamrat Layne | ||
| founding | 1991 | ||
| National anthem | Wädäfit Gäsgeshi Wudd Ennate Ityop'ya | ||
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The interim government of Ethiopia was installed in Ethiopia in May 1991 after the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was declared abolished. She ruled until a new form of government was established in 1995.
development
After the victory of the various guerrilla movements in the Ethiopian civil war against the Derg regime and the flight of its head of state Mengistu Haile Mariam , the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian peoples came to power in Addis Ababa . In June 1991 a conference of the numerous rebel movements was convened in the British capital of London , which was supposed to establish the transitional government. In addition to the Marxist-Leninist People's Liberation Front of Tigray as a member party of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples, the neoconservative Ethiopian Democratic Union was also represented with a representative.
Compared to numerous other countries on the continent, the transition phase was very quiet, and Meles Zenawi was appointed interim president. The formation of the government went hand in hand with a radical territorial change: the former Italian colony of Eritrea achieved independence in 1993 under the Eritrean People's Liberation Front after almost thirty years of war . Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia from 1950 to 1993.
Constituent Assembly
The 1994 Constituent Assembly was the first ever assembly to establish an assembly in the history of Ethiopia. It was composed of 547 elected deputies following a multi-party election on June 5, 1994. The election was won by the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples, which won 484 seats. Meanwhile, numerous opposition parties have boycotted voting. The coalition was led by Meles Zenawi. The Constituent Assembly adopted a new constitution in December 1994, replacing the 1987 constitution of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia . The new adopted constitution has been in force in Ethiopia since 1995.
A new constitution, the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , was introduced in December 1994. In 1995, Ethiopia's National Electoral Authority organized the first multi-party elections in the country's history, the parliamentary elections in May 1995 . On August 22, 1995, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed and Meles Zenawi was declared Prime Minister. While Ethiopia is now officially a Federal Republic, the neighboring country and former province of Eritrea is still in the phase of its own transitional government under the Popular Front for Democracy and Justice , the political successor party to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Aregawi Berhe, A Political history of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-1991) (Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2009), 331
- ^ Fractured legitimacy & the urgency of constitutional transfiguration. In: addisstandard.com. March 18, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2018 (English): "on December 8, 1994, the Constitutional Assembly adopted a constitution"
- ↑ Torstensson, Gösta. Befrielsekampen i Tigray . Stockholm : Kommunistiska Arbetarförlaget, 1986