Democratic organization of the Oromo people
The democratic organization of the Oromo people ( oromiffa : Dhaabbata Demokraatawaa Ummata Oromo , Amharic የኦሮሞ ህዝቦች ዴሞክራሲያዊ ድርጅት Yä-Oromo Hizbočč Demokrasiyawi Dərəǧǧət ኦህዴድ ; abbreviation OPDO or OPDO ), from September 20, 2018 an Oromo-Democratic Party (ODP.) Was Well-founded political party in Ethiopia , which formed the coalition of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples (EPRDF), which ruled until 2019, with three other ethnically-based parties (including the People's Liberation Front of Tigray ) .
The party had a democratic-socialist and social-democratic ideology. She also campaigned for the Oromo people's right to self-determination . The party's headquarters were in Addis Ababa . The party chairman was Ato Abadula Gemeda , the general secretary Kuma Demeksa , who is also a founding member of the party.
After the dissolution of the ruling coalition on December 1, 2019, the party merged with the Amhara Democratic Party and the Democratic Movement of the South Ethiopian Peoples to form the new Prosperity Party .
influence
The Oromo People's Democratic Organization had a total of around 750,000 members. In the Ethiopian parliamentary elections on May 15, 2005, the party entered as part of the electoral alliance Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples , which won 327 of the 527 seats in the House of Representatives . The Democratic Organization of the Oromo People itself received a total of 110 seats, of which 74 were given to men and 36 to women. In the regional parliamentary elections in August 2005, the party won 387 of the 537 seats in the regional parliament in Oromia , and 14 of the 36 seats in the Harar region . Since then, the OPDO has provided the regional government in the Oromia region, where the Oromo are the titular nation .
In the Ethiopian by-elections in 2008 , the Democratic Organization of the Oromo People won 23 additional seats in Oromia's regional parliament, and in the elections to the People's Council of the Kebeles , the party won 613 seats for 108 Kebeles.
The Oromo People's Democratic Organization was involved in numerous corruption scandals in the Oromia region during its reign. The General Secretary Kuma Demeksa in particular has been linked to nepotism and other anti-democratic practices . The Oromo Liberation Front , which is illegal in Ethiopia , is therefore fighting as a rebel organization against the OPDO government and claims to represent the Oromo.
history
The Oromo People's Democratic Organization was founded in 1989 by the then rebel group People's Liberation Front of Tigray, made up of Oromo members of the Ethiopian National Democratic Movement and Oromo prisoners of war, after tensions between the EPRDF and the Oromo Liberation Front had arisen. The official founding date is March 27, 1990.
Initially a weak organization, with the help of the EPRDF , the OPDO was nevertheless able to gradually achieve victorious military successes against the then ruling regime of the Communist Workers' Party of Ethiopia . The OPDO got a strong increase in membership from 1991, especially in the provinces of Wollo and Shewa , which were controlled by the EPRDF and in which the Oromo people formed a significant majority.
The fourth party congress of the OPDO was held on February 23, 2006 in Nazret . The OPDO had as Oromo offshoot of the EPRDF central government continues to absolute power in the region.
On March 27, 2010, the Oromo People's Democratic Organization celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of the party in the cities of Addis Ababa, Jimma , Harar and Sheno. The organization highlighted the party's role in the fight against the Derg government until 1987. In addition, one campaigned today for the fight against chauvinism in Ethiopia and defended the democratic unity of Ethiopia against the forces of evil .
Web links
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- ↑ a b c EPRDF website : Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the foundation ( Memento of April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Political parties in Ethiopia: Between ethnic orientation and program orientation (PDF; 135 kB)
- ^ Website of the Ethiopian House of Representatives in English ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of the Ethiopian People's House of Representatives : List of parties ( Memento from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "African Elections Database" (English)
- ↑ Official election results for the House of Peoples' Representatives ( Memento of July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Walta Information Center , May 2008
- ↑ "Ethiopian general opts for politics" BBC Africa, July, 30, 2001 (last accessed on 23 March 2009)
- ^ Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia ( New York : Palgrave, 2000), p. 322., in English
- ^ "The Fourth Conference of OPDO Kicks off at Adama" ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English language website of the regional government in Oromia)