Ethiopia: Government
Government
Ethiopia is governed under the constitution of 1994, which provides for a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. The bicameral Parliament consists of the 108-seat House of Federation, whose members are chosen by state assemblies to serve five-year terms, and the 547-seat House of People's Representatives, whose members are popularly elected and who in turn elect the president for a six-year term. The prime minister is designated by the party in power following legislative elections. Administratively, the country is divided into nine ethnically based regions and two self-governing administrations (the capital and Dire Dawa).
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Ethiopia after Haile Selassie
- The Twentieth Century and the Rule of Haile Selassie
- Nineteenth-Century Ethiopia
- Early History
- Government
- Economy
- Land and People
- Bibliography
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