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Country name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Chief of State: President Negasso Gidada

Head of Government: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

Elections:

President elected by the House of People's Representatives for a six-year term

Prime Minister designated by the party in power following legislative elections.

Parliament: two chambers

House of Federation or upper house - 117 seats

House of People's Representatives or lower chamber - 546 seats

Present balance in Parliament : EPRDF 483 seats, regional political groupings 46, independents 8, 11 seats unconfirmed.

Ethiopian flag: three horizontal bands of green, yellow and red with a yellow pentagram and single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points on a light blue disk centred on the three bands.