Ethiopia postpones elections in June

Ethiopia postpones elections in June

It will not be possible to hold elections on June 5 in Ethiopia, the chairman of the African country's election commission announced on Saturday.

TT < img src = "/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bc837260b3670f28894965898cd7025a.jpg" /> Elections in Ethiopia in June are postponed indefinitely. The picture is from the 2015 election in the capital Addis Ababa. Stock Photography.Image: Mulugeata Ayene/AP/TT No new date for the elections to the national parliament and to the regional parliaments will be announced, and the reason given is increasing logistical difficulties. some (new) date because the Commission has to go through the views of the parties, says chairman Birutkan Mideksa. She says that it is about registration of voters, training of election staff, printing and distribution of ballot papers. – In practice it is impossible to deliver everything this to the original date, she says, adding that one will take into account the coming rainy season – which falls between June and September – when a new election date is to be nailed.That the nation with about 110 million inhabitants had planned to hold the June election despite recurring clashes in the Tigray region have not drawn criticism, and parts of the opposition have previously stated that they do not intend to participate. During the day, the Ethiopian army also announced that it had deployed a force of more than 300 men, according to information from members of the former ruling party in the Tigray region who tried to enter the country from neighboring Sudan. – Some of them succumbed to thirsty on the road, some were captured, and those who refused to surrender were ousted by the army, said General Tesfaye Ayalew. TPLF), which ruled the state, attacked army bases. Since then, fighting has continued, and testimonies of massacres, abuses and indiscriminate killings have come from the region.