ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) — The Ethiopian ruling party junta has gained 499 seats in the 547-member parliament, media reported on Tuesday.
The report quoted the Ethiopian National Electoral Board as saying the outcome emerged when 536 results were announced.
Earlier on Tuesday, the National Electoral Board has announced that the ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) Woyanne, is leading the fourth national elections by winning 477 of the 547 federal parliamentary seats.
Public Relations Head with the Board, Mohammed Abdurahman, said in a statement on Tuesday that the EPRDF won 38 seats in Tigray, 137 in Amhara, 160 in Oromia and eight seats in Afar states, according to the provisional election results.
Hundreds of thousands of members and supporters of the EPRDF on Tuesday celebrated party’s victory after announcement of provisional election results by the National Electoral Board.
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s current Prime Minister and Chairperson of EPRDF, accompanied by senior government officials, joined the huge crowd at Maskal Square, the grand one in Addis Ababa, capital of the nation.
2 thoughts on “Ethiopia’s ruling junta ‘wins’ 499 out of 547 seats in elections”
This is a four-year intensive job performed by Meles and CO to revenge the Election outcome of 2005.
How on earth a party with sell out of land, betrayal of national sovereignity win an election by 96%?
It should have been a prefilled ballot box.
Thank you European Union and African Union. This is a deliberate done deal to perpetuate the usual hand-outs by using the mercenary Meles Zenawi.
He will face a genocide charge in the coming weeks. It is the same tactic used by AlBashir to disguise the International community in order to divert the reality on the ground.
Shame on also the so-called opposition groups that they could not protect the right of the people.
They signed to keep quite.
With this result meles will rule the country with iron fist for the next 25 years. He will retire at the age of 80.
That means he will be the only person on the planet to stay in power for a half-century.
I was following the election process starting from the beginning. It is really shameful to see the rulling party drama’s. Even they were sending their memebers house to house to see the reaction of citizen and to create pressure on the out come of the election. This by itself is an harsement and inmoral. As a citizen i don’t want any political party memeber to come directly my resident and ask me for whom i will vote.
So i will relate the outcome of the 2010 election in Ethiopia with the points i mentioned above.
Me personally i don’t mind who ever lead my country as long as they treat all citizen equally. I don’t know if international community are aware of our living norms, culture, etc. In Ethiopia there are about 80 different clans and we used to live together without any problem living apart the intention of politician for using for other purpose. Still we are living together with all pressure we have from the government, because we have mixed on many things (marriage contribute the major part, etc). Let see today after the current government came into power. The first thing they did is they divide us based on clans. We used together for long time peacefully. Let they tell us what benefit they will generate? Is it good for the country’s future? As a government and visionary which option should be taken for the better future of the country?
What is the aim of Ethiopian ruling party in dividing its’ people on a clan bases? Why they are thinking narrowly? A leader who thinks on a clan bases is narrow thinker and will not bring basic changes and don’t have vision for his country broadly speaking.
Why the government of Ethiopia not removing article 39 from the constitution and take corrective action including the points i raised above. May be they will think that the point i raised is a question of few people only. Believe me almost all support this idea. If the current government take action systematically they will get very high credit. I personally like the unit of Ethiopia and i don’t want leaders to divide us on a clan bases. Our people had mixed highly. Leaders has to think in a very civilized way rather than thinking back ward way.
In general what people expect from government is equal treatment in all aspect (right to live, right to write, right listen, equal job opportunity, free mind, etc).
Finally, we Ethiopian we have to unit and push the government to make those basic changes.
Bye for today