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televised election programs cover a variety of subjects: the Multi-Party System and
Building Democracy; Federalism; Agricultural and Rural Policy; Urban Development and Industrial Policy; Good Governance and the Rule of Law; National Security; Foreign Policy; Infrastructure; Education and Health. Despite these structures being in place, there were obstacles particularly from the ruling government that did not allow for an easy campaign period. For example, "on April 1, 2015, Yilkal Getnet (Eng.), president of the Blue Party (known in Amharic as Semayawi Party) had planned to travel to the United States for campaigning with the Ethiopian Diaspora there, according to Yonatan Tesfaye, public relations head of the party. However, his plan was aborted, because his passport was snatched by the authorities."
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number exceeded even the number of votes which went to any individual opposition party, highlighting the dire circumstances for opposition in the election. Invalid ballots could be discarded as such for a variety of reasons according to
Ethiopia's electoral laws. As outlined by Ethiopian paper The Reporter after the election: "a ballot paper is deemed invalid where the identity of the elector is disclosed, the ballot paper is not marked or difficult to determine the intention of the voter, for more candidates than the allowed. But as was witnessed during vote counting in some polling stations, discarding ballots as invalid was not always a clear cut conclusion."
1208:(EU) declined to participate in the proceedings on the grounds that Ethiopia had ignored the recommendations it provided after the previous round of elections that were also won by a questionable landslide. The EU said that Ethiopia had not yet developed democratically and expressed concern over "arrests of journalists and opposition politicians, closure of a number of media outlets and obstacles faced by the opposition in conducting its campaign." The
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1176:(Blue) party, rejected the official declaration of results, citing the harassment and abuses that occurred. The Blue Party called the election an "undemocratic disgrace"—citing the government's refusal to register scores of its party members as candidates, as well as arrests of its candidates—and a signal that Ethiopia was a one-party state. Prime Minister
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stated that the election was nondemocratic because, although there "may not have been widespread violence or blatant ballot box stuffing on
Election Day," the government's "systematic repression of basic rights" made it "extremely unlikely that Ethiopians would feel safe" expressing opposition views.
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visited
Ethiopia and, at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Desalegn, referred to the government as "democratically elected"; while human rights groups had called for Obama to more forcefully press for democratic reforms, Obama instead made a more mild call for the Ethiopian government to
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in London, writing ahead of the elections, described the election as an attempt by the ruling EPRDF to foster "controlled" or "non-competitive" political participation by the
Ethiopian people; he added that the competitiveness of the opposition parties was undermined by both "internal divisions and
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system. The results of the election were announced one month after the election took place. About 93.2 percent of
Ethiopia’s 36.8 million registered voters participated in the parliamentary elections, and nearly 1.4 million (3.3%) of the total votes cast for the election were deemed "invalid." This
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Federal and National Elections, the Joint Council of Political Parties selected nine subjects as the agendas for televised debates between the political parties in the planned televised debating sessions. The subjects identified for debate in the
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ruling party in
Ethiopia for more than two decades, and its allies to have won every single seat. In 2016, the Electoral Integrity Project, a panel of scholars and experts on election integrity, noted that the election occurred amid "harassment of opposition parties, censorship of the media and
2556:"AFRICAN UNION ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO THE 24 MAY 2015 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA: PRELIMINARY STATEMENT PRESENTED BY H.E. HIFIKEPUNYE POHAMBA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA AND HEAD OF THE AFRICAN UNION OBSERVATION MISSION"
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The censorship in
Ethiopia makes it difficult for members of opposition parties to effectively campaign to the general Ethiopian populous, thus limiting knowledge of political candidates. Leaders of opposition parties have been arrested, including during the month after this election.
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constituency due to clashes between the EPRDF and an independent candidate, Ashebr
Woldegiorgis, who filed formal complaints against the EPRDF after coming in second at 17.7% of the region's votes. Polling took place on 14 June.
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said that the United States remained "deeply concerned by continued restrictions on civil society, media, opposition parties, and independent voices and views" in Ethiopia, and in July 2015, U.S. National Security Adviser
1212:(AU), which monitored the election, declared the election "calm, peaceful, and credible" (but not "free and fair"); the African Union Election Observation Mission did, however, note several irregularities.
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repression of human rights"; it was ranked as the worst election on the Perceptions of Electoral Integrity (PEI) expert dataset. Human rights groups condemned the election as a sham;
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A total of 1,828 candidates contested the 547 seats, of which nine were independents and the remainder represented 44 parties. Of the 1,828 candidates, 1,527 were men and 801 women.
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241:(EPRDF), which won 500 of the 547 seats. Allies of the EPRDF won the remaining seats. Only 5.1% of the valid votes (less than 1.7 million) went to opposition parties.
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2225:"Ethiopia Elections 2015: Ruling Party Declares Historic 100 Percent Victory In Parliamentary Polls"
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Ethiopia opposition says elections an 'undemocratic disgrace'
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Ethiopia's ruling party wins by landslide in general election
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234:. Regional Assembly elections were also held on this date.
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2311:"Official Results of the 24th May 2015 General Elections"
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1247:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
1148:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
307:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
239:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
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2057:Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement
1779:Tigri Worgi Nationality Democratic Organization
1101:Sodo Gordona Peoples' Democratic Organization
630:Sidama Hadicho People Democratic Organization
613:Ethiopian Justice and Democratic Forces Front
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1753:Sidama Hadicho People Democratic Organization
1580:Ethiopian Justice and Democratic Forces Front
978:Dube and Degeni Nationality Democratic Party
2419:Baker, Peter; Fortin, Jacey (27 July 2015).
1526:Dube and Degeni Nationality Democratic Party
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456:Gambela People's Unity Democratic Movement
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289:Political Parties Running for Election
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2255:"Takeaways from Election 2015 result"
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874:Donga People Democratic Organization
857:Dilwabi Peoples' Democratic Movement
789:Bench People Democratic Organization
736:Gedeo People Democratic Organization
719:Ethiopian Peace and Democratic Party
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473:All Oromo People Democratic Party
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1185:United States Department of State
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2091:Somali People's Democratic Party
1870:Source: National Electoral Board
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1262:Somali People's Democratic Party
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1820:Wolayta People Democratic Front
1793:Unity for Democracy and Justice
1391:All Ethiopian National Movement
1118:Ethiopian National Unity Party
1084:All Ethiopian Democratic Party
1066:Western Somali Democratic Party
840:Welene People Democratic Party
684:All Ethiopian National Movement
438:Unity for Democracy and Justice
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1180:dismissed reports of abuses.
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194:Prime Minister before election
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2541:. Human Rights Watch.
1351:Agew Democratic Party
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71:All 547 seats to the
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1178:Hailemariam Desalegn
211:Hailemariam Desalegn
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1411:–
1408:0
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1395:0
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1380:0
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1357:–
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1344:0
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1329:0
1326:1
1314:0
1311:3
1299:0
1296:8
1284:0
1281:9
1269:0
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