Popular Front for Democracy and Justice

The Popular Front for Democracy and Justice ( Tigrinya ህዝባዊ ግንባር ንደሞክራስን ፍትሕን, ህግደፍ , Arabic الجبهة الشعبية للديمقراطية والعدالة, DMG al-Ǧabha aš-Šaʿbiyya li-d-Dīmuqrāṭiyya wa-l-ʿAdāla , Italian Fronte Popolare per la Democrazia e la Giustizia , English People's Front for Democracy and Justice , PFDJ ) is a party and at the same time the only approved political organization or Party in Eritrea .

It is the successor organization of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( Fronte Popolare di Liberazione Eritreo , FPLE or EPLF), which fought against Ethiopia in the Eritrean War of Independence . The PFDJ was created at the third EPLF Congress in February 1994, at which the EPLF was renamed and a National Charter for Eritrea was adopted.

Political positions

According to its own statement, it has a Marxist orientation, corresponds more to African socialism according to Central European ideas and even regards itself as open to all nationalistic Eritreans, regardless of class or other political convictions. The chairman is Isaias Afewerki , who has been President of Eritrea since the state was founded in 1993. The party regards itself as a broad political movement that should encompass all political currents within Eritrea that it tolerates. It thus has the character of a unitary party , and Eritrea is accordingly viewed as a state with a one-party system.

Disregarding the recommendations of the United Nations on state independence of April 1993, the predecessor party of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front did not liberalize the country, but contributed significantly to the overthrow of the old government, proclaimed the new state of Eritrea after a referendum and then three quarters of a year later in the Popular Front for Renamed Democracy and Justice. It is thus part of the upheaval in the management team.

Party leader

The three leaders of the Popular Front for Democracy and Justice party were and are:

Party leader	From	To
Isayas Afewerki	1994	1995
Petros Solomon	1995	1997
Al-Amin Mohammed Seid	1997	today

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↑ John Markakis: Eritrea's National Charter, in: Review of African Political Economy, pp. 126–129, 03/1995 Archived copy ( Memento of January 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

[1] John Markakis: Eritrea's National Charter, in: Review of African Political Economy, pp. 126–129, 03/1995 Archived copy ( Memento of January 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )