Legal basis for direct democracy at the national level

Article 39 and 47of the Constitution provides for mandatory referendum.

Article 12 of theConstitution provides for recall.

The Amended Electoral Law ofEthiopia, Proclamation No. 532/2007,provides the legal basis for the administrative requirements for referendum.

National ElectoralBoard Regulations No. 2/1999 provides for the legal basis for theadministrative requirements for recall. 

TheConstitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

(Adoptedin August 1995)

http://www.apapeth.org/Docs/constitution%20-english.pdf

Determinationof the Procedure for Expression by the Electorate of the Loss of Mandate ofDeputies, National Electoral Board Regulations No. 2/1999

(Enactedin 1999)

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/National%20Electoral%20Board%20of%20Ethiopia%20Regulations%20no.2-1999.pdf

The Amended Electoral Law ofEthiopia, Proclamation No. 532/2007

(Enactedin 2007)

http://www.electionethiopia.org/en/images/stories/directives/Proclamation/532.pdf