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Post by johnloony on Jun 25, 2015 3:09:09 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 25, 2015 9:11:35 GMT
<SNP look on enviously>
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 26, 2015 14:53:53 GMT
May be they have been taking lessons from the north Koreans.
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 26, 2015 14:58:20 GMT
Where are the Lions of Judah when you need them?
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Post by johnloony on Jun 26, 2015 19:29:10 GMT
I remember a report on BBC TV news in the late 1980s about the EPRDF, where it was portrayed as a trendy, slightly liberal opposition to the then communist government. It had some sort of internal democracy in which dissent was permitted. As far as I can tell from the various reports I have found from googling, the EPRDF won by fraud and intimidation, but there are some opposition parties which managed to win a handful of seats in the previous elections in 2010 and 2005. Not so much like North Korea, but more like Zimbabwe with knobs on. If you want North Korea with knobs on, go next door to Eritrea. The whole country is a military prison camp, with a mad dictator as president, and (unlike North Korea) not even any pretence of having a parliament or parliamentary elections.
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Post by johnloony on Jun 28, 2015 0:13:05 GMT
For a bit of context/comparison, here are some earlier results of parliamentary elections:
2010:
EPRDF 499
Various other pro-EPRDF parties 46
Opposition parties 2
2005:
EPRDF 327 (60% of the votes)
Coalition for Unity and Democracy 109 (20%)
United Ethiopian Democractic Forces 52 (9%)
Others 58 (9%)
2000:
EPRDF 481
Others 66
(It should be stated that the EPRDF is itself an umbrella organisation of various different parties)
and before the EPRDF came to power:
1987:
Workers' Party of Ethiopia 795 (99.2%)
Independent 40 (0.8%)
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Post by Dan on Jul 14, 2015 12:12:43 GMT
Do you believe Al Jazeera or Wikipedia? Wikipedia is reporting the result as: Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front - 500 seats Somali People's Democratic Party - 24 seats Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Party - 9 seats Afar National Democratic Party - 8 seats Gambela People's Democratic Movement - 3 seats Argoba People Democratic Organization - 1 seat Hareri National League - 1 seat |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 14, 2015 13:36:57 GMT
Do you believe Al Jazeera or Wikipedia? Wikipedia is reporting the result as: Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front - 500 seats Somali People's Democratic Party - 24 seats Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Party - 9 seats Afar National Democratic Party - 8 seats Gambela People's Democratic Movement - 3 seats Argoba People Democratic Organization - 1 seat Hareri National League - 1 seat No, |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 8, 2018 9:21:00 GMT
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