{"id":276314,"date":"2019-05-18T03:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiRGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZGV0ZXJtaW5lZC15ZXQtdW5jZXJ0YWlu0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:27:43","slug":"reporter-profile-birtukan-mideksa-faced-a-divided-timetable-for-ethiopias-national-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276314","title":{"rendered":"Reporter profile: Birtukan Mideksa faced a divided timetable for Ethiopia\u2019s national election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Reporter looked at Birtukan Mideksa\u2019s early months as chair of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia while politicians argued over when the next national election should be held.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reporter profile: Birtukan Mideksa faced a divided timetable for Ethiopia\u2019s national election\" \/>\n<p>Birtukan, a former judge and opposition figure who had been imprisoned under the previous order, was cast as a reform appointment meant to rebuild trust in the ballot. The piece framed her task as determined work under uncertain rules, with parties already fighting over calendars and logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Election timing fights in 2019 sat inside a wider transition: new parties, ethnic federal tension, and security crises that later made voting itself a battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>As governance archive, the profile dates the public image of NEBE under Birtukan before later postponements and disputes over whether Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government would allow a credible national vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/determined-yet-uncertain\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determined yet uncertain&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaAs politicians are divided over the timetable of the upcoming National Election, at the helm of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopian (NEBE), Birtukan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19SG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754816,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276314\/revisions\/754816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}