Board Announces Landslide Win for Prosperity Party
The incumbent Prosperity Party has won 438 out of a possible 486 parliamentary seats, the National Election Board of Ethiopia announced today. Opposition parties and individual candidates won just 48 seat, election officials disclosed at Addis Ababa’s Skylight Hotel, where President Taye Atskeselassie was also present. Only 501 of Parliament’s total 547 seats were in […]
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The incumbent Prosperity Party has won 438 out of a possible 486 parliamentary seats, the National Election Board of Ethiopia announced today.
Opposition parties and individual candidates won just 48 seat, election officials disclosed at Addis Ababa’s Skylight Hotel, where President Taye Atskeselassie was also present.
Only 501 of Parliament’s total 547 seats were in contention for the election, which excluded 38 constituencies in Tigray and another eight in Amhara.
However, election officials have also moved to revoke poll results in 15 additional constituencies since the vote took place earlier this month citing serious misconduct. They say a new round of voting will take place in these constituencies in the near future.
The victorious Prosperity Party is expected to form a new government in October when Parliament returns from recess.
