Democratic Movement of the South Ethiopian Peoples

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The Democratic Movement of Südäthiopischen peoples ( Amharic የደቡብ ኢትዮጵያ ሕዝቦች ዴሞክራሲያዊ ንቅናቄ Yeh-Debub Ityopya Həzbočč Demokrasiyawi Nəqnaqe , English Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Movement abbreviated SEPDM ), including Democratic Movement of Südäthiopischen people (Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement) , was a political Party in the Region of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNPR) in Ethiopia .

The party was a full member of the nationally ruling coalition of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples (EPRDF), which was led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). On December 1, 2019, it joined forces with the coalition members Oromo Democratic Party and Democratic Amharen Party to form the new Prosperity Party .

history

The TPLF / EPRDF in 1991 the regime of the Communist Workers 'Party of Ethiopia crashed, founded in 1994, the Democratic Front Südäthiopischen peoples or the Südäthiopischen people ( Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Front or Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Front , SEPDF ) as its partner in the region of the southern nations, nationalities and peoples . The first SEPDF members were TPLF prisoners of war belonging to various ethnic groups from the south. They have been prepared by the TPLF to politically lead and mobilize their respective groups.

The party became one of four members of the EPRDF coalition alongside the TPLF, the ANDM and the OPDO . In 2002 the SEPDF was renamed SEPDM and thus from the "front" to the "movement".

According to data from 2005, the SEPDM had around 300,000 party members. In January 2013, it stated that it had increased its membership from 160,000 to over 1.7 million within seven years.

Election results

In the 2005 regional elections, the SEPDM won 271 of the 348 seats in the regional parliament of the region of southern nations, nationalities and peoples . In the elections to the national parliament in the same year she scored 92 out of 123 seats in the region. Of their MPs, 64 were men and 28 women. The entire EPRDF received 327 of the 527 seats.

In December 2007, the SEPDM announced that it would 790,000 candidates for election to the Woreda - and Kebele -Räten, municipalities and the Parliament make. In 2008, the SEPDM won ten additional seats in the regional parliament and all 850 seats that were filled in 13 zones , 124 woredas and 20 cities.

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  1. ↑ AFRICAN ELECTIONS DATABASE: Elections in Ethiopia (English)
  2. ↑ Paulos Chanie: Clientelism and Ethiopia's post-1991 decentralization , in: Journal of Modern African Studies 45/3, 2007
  3. ^ Eva Brems, Christophe van der Beken (Ed.): Federalism and the Protection of Human Rights in Ethiopia , 2008, ISBN 978-3-03735-940-2 (pp. 33, 156)
  4. ^ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Parties in Ethiopia: Between Ethnic Orientation and Program Orientation (PDF; 135 kB), 2005
  5. ↑ SEPDM set to field over 812,000 candidates for upcoming election , in: Walta Information Center , December 13, 2007
  6. ↑ National Electoral Authority of Ethiopia : Winner Parties of State Councils ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Official election results for the House of Peoples' Representatives ( Memento of July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), electionsethiopia.org.
  8. ^ Website of the Ethiopian Parliament ( Memento from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Website of the Ethiopian Parliament ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ SEPDM to field over 790,000 candidates for upcoming election ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), in: Walta Information Center , December 13, 2007
  11. ↑ Official election results for the House of Peoples' Representatives ( Memento of July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), in: Walta Information Center