Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization
The Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes ( Oromiffa: Dhaabbata Demokraatawaa Ummata Oromo, Amharic የኦሮሞ ህዝቦች ዴሞክራሲያዊ ድርጅት transcribed Yeh - Oromo Hizbočč Demokrasiyawi Dərəǧǧət ኦህዴድ, in English Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization; abbreviation OPDO or OPDO ) is an ethnically -founded political party in Ethiopia which ( including the National Democratic Movement of Amhara that Democratic Front Südäthiopischen peoples and the people's Liberation Front of Tigray ) forms the current government coalition of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian People ( EPRDF ) with other ethnically -based parties.
The party set has a democratic socialist and social democratic ideology. They also committed to the self-determination of the people of the Oromo. The headquarters of the party is located in Addis Ababa. The current party leader is Ato Abadula Gemeda, the Secretary-General Demeksa Kuma, who is also aucch founding member of the Party.
Influence
The Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes has a total of about 750,000 members. In the last Ethiopian parliamentary elections on 15 May 2005, the party joined as part of the electoral alliance Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian peoples, which won 327 of the 527 seats in the People's House of Representatives. The Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes even got them a total of 110 seats, of which 74 were men and only 36 awarded to women. In the elections to regional parliaments in August 2005, the party won 387 of the 537 seats in the regional parliament in Oromia, and 14 out of 36 seats in the region of Harar. Since then, the OPDO the regional government in the Oromia region, where the Oromo are the titular nation.
In the Ethiopian elections of 2008, the Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes 23 additional seats won in the regional parliament Oromia, in elections to the People's Council of the kebeles, the party won 613 seats for 108 kebeles.
The Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes is implicated in numerous corruption scandals since her reign in the Oromia region. In particular, the Secretary-General Kuma Demeksa has been associated with nepotism and other anti-democratic practices. Therefore illegal in Ethiopia Oromo Liberation Front is fighting as rebels against the organization OPDO government and claimed to represent the Oromo for themselves.
History
The Democratic organization of Oromovolkes in 1989 was founded after it had been tension between the EPRDF and the Oromo Liberation Front of the former rebel group National Liberation Front of Tigray from Oromo members of the Ethiopian National Democratic Movement and the Oromo prisoners of war. The official founding date is 27 March 1990.
First, a weak organization could still achieve the OPDO using the EPRDF gradually victorious military successes against the then ruling regime of the Communist Workers' Party of Ethiopia. A strong membership growth got the OPDO from 1991, particularly in the provinces of Wollo and Shewa, which were controlled by the EPRDF and in which the people of the Oromo formed a significant majority.
The fourth and so far last Congress of the OPDO was held in Nazret on 23 February 2006. The OPDO than Oromo offshoot of the EPRDF central government continues full power in the region.
On 27 March 2010, the Democratic Organization of Oromovolkes the 20th anniversary of the founding of the party celebrated in the cities of Addis Ababa, Jimma, Harar and Sheno. The organization highlighted the role of the party in the fight against the Derg government until 1987. In addition, they sat down today for the fight against chauvinism in Ethiopia and verteigide the democratic unity of Ethiopia against the forces of evil.