{"id":278882,"date":"2019-06-13T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMy9ldGhpb3BpYW4tcGFybGlhbWVudC1hcHByb3ZlZC1hcHBvaW50bWVudHMtb2YtZWxlY3Rpb24tYm9hcmQtbWVtYmVycy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:32:15","slug":"parliament-approved-four-national-election-board-members-after-a-contested-shortlist-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278882","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approved four National Election Board members after a contested shortlist vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Borkena reported that Ethiopia\u2019s parliament approved four National Election Board members\u2014Bizuwork Ketete, Wubshet Ayele, Getahun Kassa, and Abera Degefa\u2014from eight shortlisted candidates, with Wubshet named deputy chair under chairperson Birtukan Mideksa.<\/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=\"Parliament approved four National Election Board members after a contested shortlist vote\" \/>\n<p>Deutsche Welle Amharic said seventeen lawmakers voted no, arguing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had not adequately consulted sister parties, while a government representative said opposition parties had been invited and only about twenty representatives attended among more than one hundred registered parties.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as elections archive, the Borkena report dates the June 2019 parliamentary confirmation of Election Board appointees ahead of the planned 2020 vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/13\/ethiopian-parliament-approved-appointments-of-election-board-members\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Parliament approved appointments of Election Board members&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comEthiopian Parliament has approved appointments of four Election Board members from among eight shortlisted applicants. Read more.<\/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-278882","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-1ay6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882","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=278882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755150,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882\/revisions\/755150"}],"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=278882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}