70 Ethiopian Political Parties to Launch Hunger Strike to Protest New Electoral LawBy Staff ReporterOctober 2, 2019 (Ezega.com) -- 70 Ethiopian political parties passed a resolution to launch a hunger strike to protest the recently-passed revised political party registration and code of ethics proclamation by the national parliament. In a meeting on Wednesday October 2, 2019, the political parties said “our proposals were not included in the revised electoral law and our complaints against the law were not heard”The political parties mainly complain over the required number of signatures to form a political party, both at regional and nationwide levels. According to the new electoral law, any party running for national parliament will be required to have 10,000 registered members at the minimum. In opposition to the new electoral law last month, thirty-three Ethiopian political parties had demanded the annulment of 20 articles in the revised Ethiopian electoral law and revision to 13 others. The parties said the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia has failed to incorporate their proposals as agreed in their joint discussion in the national parliament in July this year.

Source: Ethiopian News October 03, 2019 05:26 UTC