Hareri National League

The Hareri National League ( Amharic የሐረሪ ብሔራዊ ሊግ, German National League of Aderi, abbreviation HNL) is a political party in the region of Harar, a small autonomous region in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

The current chairman, Murad Abdullahi is also president of the Harar region. In order for the HNL ​​is also the ruling party in this ethnically defined region.

History

The party was founded as a regional partner of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian peoples, the party coalition that governed at the national level on 25 August in 1991 and officially registered on 26 May 1994.

The party HNL celebrated its tenth anniversary of the creation on 25 August 2001, then under the leadership of Chairman Fuad Ibrahim. She held her seventh party congress from November 30 to December 1, 2008 from, who was accompanied and observed by nearly 500 party members and other sympathizers.

At the last general legislative elections in 2005, on May 15, the party started off with 0.3 % of the votes the candidate Merwan Bedri Mohammed as representatives of the people Haimatdistrikte in the House of Representatives (First Chamber of the Ethiopian Parliament ) for the region of Harar. In the elections to regional parliaments in August of 2005, the HNL ​​won a total of 18 of the 36 parliamentary seats in the regional assembly of the Harar region.