By Legal Document/ MIRH/ 05 October 2022
By: National Election Board of Ethiopian
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to enable all Ethiopians to exercise their right to self-administration, without any discrimination, through their representatives elected in a direct and free election;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to ensure the participation of every Ethiopian in an all-inclusive, fair and peaceful elections held at every level on the basis of equal popular suffrage in which Ethiopians freely express their will in a secret ballot;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary that any electoral activity shall be guided by an electoral law that meets international election standards;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to establish an electoral system that enables political parties with different views to participate by expressing their opinions to the electorate in a lawful and peaceful manner, and that enables the people to elect their representatives based on informed decisions and free expression of their will;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide the right and duty of citizens who form political parties or become members of political parties, and to determine mechanisms for parties to obtain legal personality and provide basic principles to be followed by the parties in their operation as organizations;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to regulate the manner in which political parties can merge, establish fronts or form coalitions;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to put in place a system that enables political parties and independent candidates contesting in elections to play a constructive role to ensure a fair, peaceful, free and democratic elections system;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to issue codes of conduct for political parties, candidates, members and supporters of political parties during the elections period so that the elections are guided by ethical behavior and are conducted in a free, peaceful, legal, democratic and credible manner;
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to establish institutions that give administrative and judicial decisions on electoral disputes and to determine their operational procedures;
WHEREAS, by considering the re-establishment of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia under Proclamation No. 1133/2019 to administer elections impartially;
NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows:
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THE ETHIOPIAN ELECTORAL, POLITICAL PARTIES REGRISTATION, AND ELECTION’S CODE OF CONDUCT PROCLAMATION
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