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Factions within the Oromo Liberation Front – OLF – will continue to be part of the Organization and will co-organize the next party congress, the Ethiopian Electoral Board ruled.
borkena
December 18, 2020
The chairman and vice chairman of the radical Oromo nationalist party, OF, had existed as factions for several months after each faction made the decision to suspend the other until the next party congress. One of the factions appealed the matter to the Electoral Board to try to resolve it.
Arbitrating disputes within a political party appears to fall within the mandate of Ethiopia’s electoral board. Actually, it could fall into your power. In a decision letter on the dispute between the OLF factions, the Board said it has the constitutional authority to establish a professional council to deliberate whenever there is a dispute between members of the political party.
According to the Electoral Board, the faction led by Dawud Ibsa refused to appoint professionals to serve on the council to resolve the dispute. “It is something that must be resolved in accordance with the internal rules of the party,” was the argument delivered to the Electoral Board.
The Board also revealed that it could not find a professional willing to deliberate on the issue. For that reason, La Junta said, it was forced to analyze the issue itself to deliberate on the dispute.
As part of the deliberative process, the Board has contacted the leaders of both factions. He also held discussions with the party’s audit and discipline committee. But the OLF committee notified the electoral board that it does not have to deliberate on suspension directives from both sides.
Decisions of the Electoral Board
1) The suspension of the party president, Dawud Ibsa, is unacceptable. The Electoral Board’s explanation is that the minutes of the meeting chaired by the vice president of the organization, Ararso Bikila, showed that the meeting did not have 2/3 of the quorum.
2) The decision signed by the president of the organization, Dawud Ibsa, and sent to the electoral board, which suspended the vice president, the party executive and the members of the central committee until the next party congress, is also not acceptable. It does not say whether the meeting was conducted correctly and how many members attended. There is no indication whether the decision was based on the majority vote, the Electoral Board said.
So the Electoral Board wants the disputed factions of the party to remain the legal bodies of the organization until the party congress.
The party planned to hold a general organizational congress in December 2020, and the board noted that the party is supposed to have its congress in late January 2021.
Another decision is that the Electoral Board wants the factions to co-organize the next congress.
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