{"id":277203,"date":"2019-05-27T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjcvZGVzcGl0ZS1kZWxheWVkLWNlbnN1cy1ldGhpb3BpYS1wb2xsLWJvZHktd2FudHMtMTI5bS1mb3ItMjAyMC12b3RlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:34","slug":"nebe-asked-for-about-129-million-for-the-2020-vote-despite-a-delayed-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277203","title":{"rendered":"NEBE asked for about $129 million for the 2020 vote despite a delayed census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Africanews reported that National Electoral Board chair Birtukan Mideksa said a delayed national census would not stop preparations for elections then planned for 2020, and that NEBE had submitted a budget near $129 million to lawmakers.<\/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=\"NEBE asked for about $129 million for the 2020 vote despite a delayed census\" \/>\n<p>The postponed April 2019 census had been expected to guide boundaries and logistics, so the board\u2019s public confidence mattered to parties already arguing about timing and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Budget asks and census delays became early signs that the 2020 calendar would slip, as it later did under conflict and pandemic pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as elections archive, the $129 million NEBE request is a dated financing and census checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/27\/despite-delayed-census-ethiopia-poll-body-wants-129m-for-2020-vote\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite delayed census, Ethiopia poll body wants $129m for 2020 vote&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishEthiopia&#8217;s elections body, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, NEBE, says a delayed census will not affect its preparations for elections slated for&#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-277203","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-1a71","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277203","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=277203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754928,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277203\/revisions\/754928"}],"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=277203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}