{"id":278334,"date":"2019-06-07T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMibGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8wNy9ldGhpb3BpYXMtbmF0aW9uYWwtZWxlY3Rpb24tYm9hcmQtY29tbWl0dGVlLWRpc2Nsb3NlZC1zaG9ydGxpc3RlZC1jYW5kaWRhdGVzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:57","slug":"borkena-said-ethiopias-election-board-disclosed-shortlisted-national-election-board-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278334","title":{"rendered":"Borkena said Ethiopia\u2019s election board disclosed shortlisted National Election Board candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Borkena reported that a committee tied to Ethiopia\u2019s National Election Board process had disclosed a shortlist of candidates, a procedural step in rebuilding election administration after years of disputed polls.<\/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=\"Borkena said Ethiopia\u2019s election board disclosed shortlisted National Election Board candidates\" \/>\n<p>Credible election management was central to Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform promise of competitive politics, so even a short shortlist announcement mattered as a dated marker of how the new board was being staffed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as elections archive, the Borkena note records the mid-2019 disclosure of shortlisted National Election Board candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/07\/ethiopias-national-election-board-committee-disclosed-shortlisted-candidates\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s National Election Board committee disclosed shortlisted candidates&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comNational Election Board recuiting committee shorlisted eight candidates out of more than two hundred nominees. Find out list of shortlisted people.<\/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-278334","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-1apg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278334","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=278334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755077,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278334\/revisions\/755077"}],"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=278334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}