The Speaker of the Ethiopian House of Peoples Representatives, H.E. Hon. Tagesse Chafo, met this afternoon with Managing Director for Africa at the EEAS, Mr. Koen Vervaeke, at the latter’s request. Discussions focused on preparations underway for the upcoming elections in Ethiopia, EU support to make the elections achieve their goals of being fair, free, transparent and credible, specific support required from NEBE, challenges in adhering to the timeline of the elections, political party campaigning, possibilities for an EU election observation mission, the on-going process of unifying the EPRDF into one national party, the Sidama referendum, etc on 18 October 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.
