Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

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Basic data
Title: Constitution of the
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Amharic የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ ሕገ መንግሥት
Ye'ītiyop'iya fēdēralawī dīmokirasīyawī rīpebilīki ḥige menigišiti
Short title: 1995 Constitution
Type: federal Constitution
Scope: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Legal matter: Constitutional law
Issued on: December 8, 1994
Entry into force on: August 22, 1995
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The current constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was adopted on December 8, 1994 by the Ethiopian interim government and entered into force on August 22, 1995.

The 1995 Federal Constitution is the fourth constitution in the history of Ethiopia . The nine individual states each have their own constitutions .

content

The constitution determines a parliamentary system of government and a federal administrative structure based on the nine ethnically based regions ( kililoch ). The Ethiopian parliament is said to have a two-chamber system. The constitution upholds the tradition of the separation of church and state , which has existed since 1974, and contains numerous enforceable fundamental human rights and freedoms. It guarantees that all languages ​​in Ethiopia enjoy equal recognition from the state, although Amharic is also specified in the constitution as the working language of the federal government.

Ethiopia has a long tradition of highly people-oriented and highly centralized governance, a pattern that the current ruling coalition under the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian Peoples continues to follow, even though the constitution limits federal power. The Constitutional Council ensures that the Council of Ministers , the cabinet of the Federal Government, adhere to the constitution .

Structure and structure

Starting with the preamble, the constitution consists of 106 articles and is divided into eleven chapters:

  1. Chapter: General Provisions
  2. Chapter: Fundamental Principles of the Constitution
  3. Chapter: Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
  4. Chapter: Structure of the State
  5. Chapter: Structure and division of the separation of powers
  6. Chapter: The Federal Chambers
  7. Chapter: The Federal President of the Republic
  8. Chapter: The Executive Power
  9. Chapter: Structure and Power of the Courts
  10. Chapter: Principles and goals of national politics
  11. Chapter: Various provisions

See also

Web links

  • Legal text (English)
  • Legal text (Amharic, PDF)
  • Jennifer Widner: Ethiopia 1994. In: Constitution Writing & Conflict Resolution: Data & Summaries. Princeton University, August 2005, accessed October 4, 2013 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ethiopia country profile (PDF; 161 kB) Library of Congress , Federal Research Division , April 2005 (English).
  2. ↑ Article 82 of the Ethiopian Federal Constitution