{"id":49655,"date":"2026-03-13T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/?p=49655"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:26:11","slug":"high-court-lifts-injunction-against-election-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/49655\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court Lifts Injunction Against Election Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal High Court has lifted the injunction it had previously imposed on the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), which had barred the Board from implementing a decision communicated by the House of Federation regarding five contested constituencies disputed between the Amhara and Tigray regional states.<\/span><\/p>\n

The injunction had been issued after Simeret Party filed a lawsuit against the Election Board following the Board\u2019s public acknowledgment of the House of Federation\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter sent by the House of Federation to the Election Board indicated that the five constituencies\u2014whose administrative status has been contested between the Amhara and Tigray regional governments\u2014should conduct elections independently and directly for representation in the House of Peoples\u2019 Representatives, outside the jurisdiction of the Tigray regional government, until the territorial dispute is resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the plaintiff, Simeret Party, announced on March 11, 2026, that it had withdrawn the lawsuit it filed before the First Electoral Bench of the Federal High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

The party said it decided to withdraw the case after confirming that the letter sent from the House of Federation to the Election Board had not been approved by the Council\u2019s plenary session, but was instead issued solely by the Speaker of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the party, a decision can only be considered legally binding if it is discussed and approved by members during a plenary session and adopted through a vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA decision that can be considered legally valid by the Council is one that is discussed by its members in a plenary session, included on the agenda, and approved through a vote. The letter issued by the Speaker does not represent the Council\u2019s legal position and was not known to the members of the Council,\u201d the party stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The party said that continuing the legal dispute based on a document lacking a proper legal foundation would waste both the court\u2019s valuable time and public resources, which is why it decided to withdraw the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the withdrawal of the lawsuit on March 11, 2026, the Federal High Court today lifted the injunction it had imposed on the Election Board.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal High Court has lifted the injunction it had previously imposed on the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), which had barred the Board from implementing a decision communicated by the House of Federation regarding five contested constituencies disputed between the Amhara and Tigray regional states. The injunction had been issued after Simeret Party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":49656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,2078,1945],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news-in-ethiopia","8":"category-election-2026","9":"category-news-in-brief-latest-ethiopian-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}