The board recently announced that it’s preparing for elections in Tigray since 2021 national polls weren’t held in the war-torn region. Thus far, Tigray’s opposition parties have remained silent on the board’s decision regarding TPLF. Mixed ReactionSome Tigrayans expressed concerns online that the decision could undo the hard-fought peace and plunge northern Ethiopia back into war. In 2021, the board ordered the party’s funds to be expropriated to cover the party’s debts and support civic and electoral education. Email usMain Image : Birtukan Mideksa becomes President of National Electoral Board of Ethiopia- NEBE; 22 November 2018Published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.

Source: Ethiopian News June 12, 2023 16:25 UTC