This article lists political parties in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia has a multi-party parliament. The legislature was mostly dominated by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, until it was succeeded by the Prosperity Party in December 2019. The latest general election would have taken place in August 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent general election took place in 2021.

List

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Parliamentary parties

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|Prosperity Party<br/><small><br><br></small>

|Centre

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|2019 include:

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|Freedom and Equality Party||||Moderate liberalism||Established in 2019

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|All Ethiopian National Movement||||N/A||

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|All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement||||||Oldest communist party in Ethiopia. Member of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces

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|Balderas Party

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|Founded by political activist Eskinder Nega in 2019

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|Alliance for Freedom and Democracy||?||Self-determination||Coalition of former separatist groups.

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|Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice||||||Created through the merger of 7 opposition parties.

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|Ethiopian Democratic League||||N/A||Former member of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy.

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|Ethiopian Democratic Party||||||Member of Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice.

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|Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum (Medrek)||||||Officially a coalition of 5 parties.

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|Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party||||Non-ethnic federalism||Former communist party.

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|Ethiopian Social Democratic Party||||Social democracy||Former member of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces.

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|Ginbot 7||||N/A||Political organisation.

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|Islamic Front for the Liberation of the Oromo||||Oromo self-determination||Oromo militant party.

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|Kefagn Patriotic Front||?||N/A||Formed by soldiers from the army of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

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|Oromo Federalist Congress||||||Formed in 2012 from merger of OPC with OFDM.

References

  • List of registered political parties on the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs webpage
  • Alphabet Soup, a 1995 list of Ethiopian parties prepared by the UN