{"id":354372,"date":"2021-03-28T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=354372"},"modified":"2021-03-28T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:27:36","slug":"national-electoral-board-of-ethiopia-dismissed-general-assembly-of-the-oromo-liberation-front-as-null-and-void-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/354372","title":{"rendered":"National Electoral Board of Ethiopia dismissed  General Assembly of the Oromo Liberation Front as \u201cnull and void\u201d (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has dismissed the General Assembly of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as \u201cnull and void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement it issued on Sunday, the board also disclosed that it will not accept the party\u2019s newly elected officials as legitimate OLF leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The split of OLF\u2019s leadership into two factions has been making headlines. NEBE demanded the opposition party to hold the General Assembly and resolve the disagreement between members of its leadership. <\/p>\n<p>A faction led by the deputy chairman Ararso Biqila has held a general assembly and elected a new chairman, a move highly opposed by the party\u2019s chairman Dawud Ibsa as illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral board in a statement said the so called \u2018General Assembly\u2019 of OLF was held between three leaders of the party as opposed to the regulation that at least 2\/3 of the party central committee  members should be in attendance at the General Assembly. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"462\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iMJX_rSjZ7k\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) has dismissed the General Assembly of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as \u201cnull and void.\u201d In a statement it issued on Sunday, the board also disclosed that it will not accept the party\u2019s newly elected officials as legitimate OLF leaders. The split of OLF\u2019s leadership into two factions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":354375,"comment_status":"open","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-354372","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\/2021\/03\/NEBE.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ubG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354372","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354374,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354372\/revisions\/354374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}