Thursday, December 08, 2005

BELOW ARE TEXTS OF DEBATES i HAD WITH MY FRIENDS...

Is CUD ready for parliament?

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=50568&SelectRegion=Horn_of_
Africa&SelectCountry=ETHIOPIA

"...The call for dialogue came as more than 50 CUD members ended their boycott of parliament. The party had refused to assume the 109 seats it won in the 15 May parliamentary elections, claiming the vote was rigged in favour of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the ruling party.Opposition parties, which won only 12 seats during the 2000 elections, got a total of 174 seats in the May polls, or 32 percent of the parliament..."

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