United Ethiopian Democratic Forces

The United Ethiopian Democratic Forces ( Amharic የኢትዮጵያ ዴሞክራሲያዊ ኃይሎቸ ሕብረት transcribed ya-ītyōṗṗyā Demokrasiyawi Hayločä Hibrät shortly Hibrät ; English as "United Ethiopian Democratic Forces" ; abbreviated UEDF) are a coalition of parties in Ethiopia who are ahead of the 2005 parliamentary elections formed.

The UEDF advocates further federalization of the country and is particularly close to the Oromo ethnic group .

Parties

The founding members and most important parties in this alliance are the Oromo People's Congress (OPC), the Ethiopian Social Democratic Federal Party (ESDFP), the Democratic Alliance of the Peoples of South Ethiopia (SEPDC), the All-Amhara People's Organization (AAPO) and the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party (EDUP).

In addition, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic United Front (ARDUF / Uguugumo), the Ethiopian Democratic Union - Tehadiso (EDU Tehadiso), the All- Ethiopian Socialist Movement (MEISON), the Ethiopian National United Front (ENUF), the Ethiopian People Federal Democratic Unity Party ( HIBREHIZB), the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (IHAPA), the Gambela People's United Democratic Front (GPUDF), the Oromo People's Liberation Organization (OPLO - IBSO) and the Tigrean Alliance for Democracy (TAND) joined the coalition.

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In the parliamentary elections on May 15, 2005, the UEDF won 52 seats in the House of Representatives . Of these, 40 seats are in the Oromia region and 12 in the region of the southern nations, nationalities and peoples .

In October 2005, the UEDF temporarily supported the other major opposition party alliance, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD or Qinijit), in refusing to join the People's House of Representatives until all demands were followed up. At the last moment, the then party chairman, Dr. Merera Gudina and his deputy Beyene Petros announced that the UEDF would join the council after they were ousted by the party's central committee. At present (June 2006) the party alliance is led by the deputy chairman Girma Schumie and the general secretary of the party Dereje Kebede . Spokesman of the party is the representative of West Shewa - Zone in Oromia, Geberu Mariam Uturu .

Web links

• Deutsche Welle on the Ethiopian opposition

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1. ↑ Wolbert GC Smidt: Das Feldforschungsgebiet Tigray / Ethiopia , in: Abdulkader Saleh, Nicole Hirt, Wolbert GC Smidt, Rainer Tetzlaff (eds.): Peace spaces in Eritrea and Tigray under pressure: Identity construction, social cohesion and political stability , LIT Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 9783825818586 (p. 212)
2. ^ Wolbert GC Smidt: Peace areas in Tigray and Ethiopia under pressure
3. ↑ Press release of the Ethiopian Parliament ( memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Ethiopian Parliament, UEDF officials ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Due to the complicated transcription from Amharic , the spelling of Ethiopian proper names can be different in different publications.