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The chairwoman of Ethiopia’s National Election Commission (NEBE), Birtukan Mideksan (49), an imprisoned former opposition politician who had held the post since December 2018, had tendered her resignation due to health reasons
The chairwoman of Ethiopia’s National Election Commission (NEBE), Birtukan Mideksan (49), an imprisoned former opposition politician who had held the post since December 2018, had tendered her resignation due to health reasons. She said that the rest of the time, she would work to fulfill unfinished business.
Among the “unfinished business” should be the proclamation of the official results of the referendum on the creation in southern Ethiopia, a 12th regional state within the federal state.
The voting took place on 6 February in several administrative zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR), which had called for them to be grouped together in a new region. However, the voting was canceled in the Wolayta zone due to irregularities and was re-run there on 19 June.
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A former judge and then opposition leader, imprisoned in the 2000s under the coalition regime dominated between 1991 and 2018 by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), then exiled to the United States, Ms. Birtukan was chosen by the new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, shortly after he came to power in 2018, to chair the NEBE.
