{"id":276718,"date":"2019-05-21T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=8fb8c9b64ceab918a69995b46a411d6e"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:01","slug":"an-election-board-committee-published-criteria-for-recruiting-nebe-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276718","title":{"rendered":"An election-board committee published criteria for recruiting NEBE members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Borkena reported that a committee set up to help recruit members of Ethiopia\u2019s National Electoral Board disclosed public criteria and invited nominations.<\/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=\"An election-board committee published criteria for recruiting NEBE members\" \/>\n<p>The notice sat inside a wider fight over the timetable and credibility of the next national election, after Birtukan Mideksa\u2019s appointment as board chair and while parties already argued about logistics and security.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing criteria was meant to show that board seats would not be filled only behind closed doors, though activists still asked whether Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government would allow a truly independent referee.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as election governance archive, the membership criteria file dates an early procedural step before later postponements and disputes over the 2021 vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/21\/ethiopias-election-board-committee-disclosed-criteria-for-membership\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s election board committee disclosed criteria for membership&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comCommittee established to recruite election board memebrs disclosed today criteria for membership to the board and invite the public to nominate members.<\/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-276718","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-19Zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276718","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=276718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754856,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276718\/revisions\/754856"}],"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=276718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}