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Meles Zenawi

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

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    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.

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