United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin
The United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin Party ( Amharic የኢትዮጵያ ዴሞክራሲያዊ አንድነት ፓርቲ-መድህን , transcribed YeItyopya Démokrasiyawi Andinet Parti-Medhin ኢዴአፓ-መድህን , English United Ethiopian Democratic Party-Medhin Party ; official abbreviation UEDP-M or UEDP-MEDHIN ) is a party in Ethiopia .
It is one of the largest and most influential opposition parties in the entire country, especially in the Amhara region. The President of the United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin is Ato Lidetu Ayalew , while the party's vice-president is Wezero Sophia Yilma .
history
In the last national legislative elections to the Ethiopian federal parliament, on May 15, 2005, the United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin was one of the member parties within the party and electoral alliance of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy ( Qinijit ), which together have 109 seats in the won a possible 527 seats in the People's House of Representatives . The United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin itself received a total of 36 parliamentary seats with 6.84% of the total vote, 34 of which were given to men and only 2 to women. In spite of all this, on October 5, 2005, the party's central committee decided to leave the coalition for unity and democracy .
The decision of party president Lidetu Ayalew that the bloc of the United Ethiopian Democratic Party / Medhin won the entire parliamentary seats - which were given to the coalition for unity and democracy - led to criticism and internal disputes within the coalition after the 2005 parliamentary elections. Lidetu Ayalew has been described as a spy for the Tigray People's Liberation Front , a party that leads the Ethiopian ruling coalition Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples .
See also
Remarks
- ↑ a b Guide of the UEDP-Medhin ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Official English-language website of the UEDP-Medhin )
- ↑ English-language website of the Ethiopian People's House of Representatives : List of parties ( memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and its Discontents; Africa Report No. 153 - September 4, 2009" ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB), International Crisis Group, page 10 (last accessed on November 16, 2009)
