General Election Time Table

The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia

Announcement on the Timetable of the Fourth Round

Electoral Process

The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia has accomplished the preparation for the election that will be conducted in 2010.

By considering The Amended Electoral Law of Ethiopia Proclamation No. 532/2007 Article 28(1) which proclaimed the general election shall be conducted to the House of People's Representatives or state councils every five year; the general election conducted in 2005 shall now be terminated in 2010.
The board is issued a power by electoral law to prepare a timetable for the election and officially announce to the public after consulting with political parties.
Before the board publicizes the timetable, the draft has been provided to the 58 legally registered political parties to discuss and to give their opinions on the draft.
The timetable provides suitable and enough time for the registration of voters and candidates for the election, for voting, counting of votes and announcing election results.
By considering the preparation of all Ethiopian peoples and legally registered political organizations to conduct free, peaceful and public loyal election for the 4^th round general election to be conducted in 2010;

In accordance with the amended electoral law of Ethiopia proclamation no. 532/99 Article 16(12) and article 34 the board approved and announced the timetable for the 4^th round general election by its 107^th urgent meeting which was held on November 3, 2009.

No	*Duties*	*Date*
1	Political parties who run for election report to the National Electoral Board and choose their own candidature symbols.	November 24 to 26, 2009
2	Private candidates collect sample of candidature endorsement signature form from the Board's secretariat or regional branch offices of the Board or the zone coordinators' offices and collect candidature signatures from within kebeles of the respective constituency and submit them to kebele's administration offices for verification.	November 29 to December 29, 2009
3	Public observers at polling stations are elected from among residents by the electorates in one day official meeting.	December 1, 2009
4	Kebeles' Administrative offices after screening and verifying the candidature endorsement signatures' submitted to them and stamping with their seal, they return them to the collectors.	December 9 to December 29, 2009
5	A private candidate whose candidature endorsement signature's does not qualify him to be a candidate may recollect signatures and submit them to their constituency electoral offices. After having them screened, verified and stamped by seal of the kebele's administrative offices, they will be returned to the candidate and the screened endorsement signatures will be delivered to constituency electoral offices.	December 9, 2009 to January 8, 2010
6	The constituency electoral offices shall be operational officially.	Starting from December 10, 2009
7	Political organizations who run for election and the private candidates who collects candidature endorsement signature notify their stationary and mobile representatives to constituency electoral offices.	December 10, 2009 to May 13, 2010
8	Registration of candidates at the constituency electoral offices.	December 25, 2009 to February 2, 2010
9	Political parties submit to constituency electoral offices their candidates list in person or by the party's representative.	December 25, 2009 to February 2, 2010
10	Private candidates deliver the endorsement signatures to the constituency electoral offices after they had been screened and verified by the kebeles' administrative offices.	December 25, 2009 to February 2, 2010
11	Lodging complaints with and getting decision from constituency electoral office by any person or political organization regarding denial of candidates' registration.	December 25, 2009 to February 4, 2010
12	Any candidate dissatisfied by the decision of the constituency office, can appeal to and get grievance hearing committee decision from the regional electoral office grievance hearing committee.	December 25, 2009 to February 7, 2010
13	The polling stations officially commence their duties.	January 8, 2010
14	Voters' registration is conducted at the polling stations.	January 9 to February 17, 2010
15	Complaints relating to a person denied registration or a person found not eligible for registration as an elector after having registered, are submitted to the polling stations grievance hearing committee.	January 9 to March 2, 2010
16	Candidates who meet the criteria for registration shall appear before the constituency electoral offices and take their choice from among candidature symbols.	February 3 to February 7, 2010
17	Publicizing the list of candidates to the electorate of their constituency.	February 8, 2010
18	Issuance of candidature ID card.	February 9 to February 14, 2010
19	Official commencement of the election campaign.	February 9, 2010
20	A special registration date for electors who were unable to register because of force majeure and lodged complaints and got acceptance.	February 18 and 19, 2010
21	Displaying the electoral roll to the public.	February 20 to February 24, 2010
22	Working out a program about voting process and briefing the electorals of the kebeles.	May 16, 2010
23	Official winding up of the election campaign.	May 20, 2010 at 6:00 pm
24	Voting date.	May 23, 2010 from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
25	Votes counting immediately after the closure of the polls.	May 23, 2010 stating 6:00 pm
26	Lodging any complaint related to voting and getting a decision from the polling station grievance hearing committee.	May 23, 2010
27	Heirarically lodging of complaints related to the vote counting and getting decision from constituency grievance hearing committee and the Board.	May 23 to June 14, 2010
28	The vote counting results shall be displayed at the polling stations.	May 24, 2010
29	The summing up of vote counting results at constituency electoral office is undertaken and the result displayed for the public.	May 29, 2010
30	The Board will announce partial results of the election drawn from some constituencies until the general results of the election are submitted.	From June 2 to 14, 2010
31	The National Electoral Board approves and publicizes the general election results to the public.	June 21, 2010

Notice

The Electoral Board requests all Ethiopians, political parties, candidates and stakeholders to properly implement the above mentioned timetable and to actively participate in the upcoming election in order to make it free, fair, peaceful and democratic.

Based on the timetable, the constituencies and polling stations will formally begin their duties.

The Board announces that electoral officials found at different levels should strictly observe and accomplish all the necessary preconditions for the upcoming election.

National Electoral Board of Ethiopia

November 2009

Addis Ababa

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