NEBE Promotion PosterAddis Abeba – The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) said it has submitted a budget request amounting a total of 541,270,104.82 birr for the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) for the upcoming referendum expected to be held in Southern Nation, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) regional state. The Board’s request follows a decision by the House of Federation (HoF) to hold a referendum in six zones and five Special Woredas in SNNP to pave ways for the creation of a new regional state. On August 05 Speaker of HoF Agegnehu Teshager informed the Electoral Board to organize the referendum and notify the House of the results. Accordingly, the Electoral Board said has prepared an action plan with a list of tasks needed to implement the referendum. As part of that the Board has presented the budget to the HoPR to implement the referendum.

Source: Ethiopian News September 22, 2022 08:06 UTC