doi:10.18449/2025MTA-WP18
Ethiopia has never had a national election as contested as the one in 2005. Afrobarometer data show the long-term effects of this event, such as the former youth's embrace of national rather than ethnic identities or a preference for geographically based federalism.
A Mursi man holds his voter registration card while waiting in line to vote in Ethiopia's Parliamentary elections, Sunday 15 May 2005.
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