Ethiopia proposes holding postponed poll in May or June 2021, says broadcaster
Ethiopian authorities have proposed holding a postponed election in May or June 2021, state-affiliated broadcaster FANA said on Friday, setting the
stage for a test of support for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s sweeping economic and political reforms.
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The government postponed a parliamentary election scheduled for August this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The country’s election board, which FANA said had proposed the move, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Next year’s vote will be a litmus test for Abiy, who after decades of repression introduced sweeping economic and political reforms that helped win him the Nobel Prize last year.
But the new freedoms also fueled long-suppressed demands for more regional autonomy, rights and resources.
Last month Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region went ahead and held regional elections in a show of defiance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who called the vote illegal.
In the past three years, Ethiopia has faced several outbreaks of ethnic violence, what the government described as an attempt at a regional coup led by rogue security forces, and increasingly insistent demands from smaller ethnic groups for their own regions.
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