{"id":45141,"date":"2025-05-14T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/?p=45141"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:48:59","slug":"election-board-strips-tplf-of-political-party-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/45141\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Board Strips TPLF of Political Party Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The months-long dispute between the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) has culminated in a decision to strip the political party of its federal recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced in a statement from the Board today, follows the end of a three-month suspension levied on TPLF for failing to hold a federally recognized general assembly and elect its leaders within the six-month window granted to it when it was officially reinstated under \u201cspecial circumstances\u201d in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The statement issued today accuses the party of failing to \u201ctake corrective measures\u201d during the suspension, and says the TPLF\u2019s status as a political party has been revoked as of May 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>How the decision will impact the Pretoria Agreement and the Tigray Interim Administration (TIA) remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The months-long dispute between the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) has culminated in a decision to strip the political party of its federal recognition. The decision, announced in a statement from the Board today, follows the end of a three-month suspension levied on TPLF for failing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":40835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,13],"tags":[1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-45141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news-in-ethiopia","8":"category-latest-ethiopian-political-news","9":"tag-front"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}