Afar National Democratic Party

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The Afar National Democratic Party , or National Democratic Party of Afar ( Amharic የአፋር ብሔራዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ English Afar National Democratic Party ; abbreviation ANDP ) was a political party in Ethiopia . On December 1, 2019, it joined forces with the ruling coalition Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples to form the new Prosperity Party .

The ANDP represented the Afar ethnic group in Ethiopia and provided the regional government in the Afar region . As a regional partner of the governing coalition, the party was also involved in the country's national government. The national Federal Minister of Social Affairs of Ethiopia and the Federal Minister for Cattle Breeding were members of the ANDP .

history

Flag of the Afar Revolutionary Democratic United Front ( ARDUF )

The ANDP was in the second half of 1999 from the merger of the Democratic Organization of the people of Afar ( Afar People's Democratic Organization , APDO), the National Liberation Front of Afar ( Afar National Liberation Front , ANLF) and the National Democratic Movement of Afar ( Afar National Democratic Movement , NdBa) and from members of the Afar liberation front ( Afar liberation front , ALF) and the Democratic Revolutionary United front of Afar ( Afar Revolutionary Democratic unity front , ARDUF) was founded. The ALF and the ARDUF are still politically active.

In the national elections to the Ethiopian federal parliament on May 15, 2005, the ANDP won 8 of the 546 parliamentary seats in the People's House of Representatives with 1.4% of the vote and thus also all seats for the Afar region . In the regional parliamentary elections in August of the same year, the party won 84 out of a possible 87 seats in the state parliament of the Afar region.

See also

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  1. ^ English-language website of the House of Representatives of the Nations ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ethiopia: Afar Liberation Front (ALF); role played within the Ethiopian government; number of current members of parliament; treatment of members and members' family by Authorities, 21 October 2002, ETH39452.E ( English , accessed on 19 October 2009).
  3. ↑ African Elections Database ( English ).