Election Name: | 2024 Ethiopian presidential election |
Country: | Ethiopia |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Party Name: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2018 Ethiopian presidential election |
Previous Year: | 2018 |
Next Election: | 2030 Ethiopian presidential election |
Next Year: | 2030 |
Election Date: | 7 October 2024 |
Nominee1: | Taye Atske Selassie |
Electoral Vote1: | Unopposed |
Party1: | Independent (politician) |
President | |
Before Election: | Sahle-Work Zewde |
Before Party: | Independent |
After Election: | Taye Atske Selassie |
After Party: | Independent |
A presidential election was held in Ethiopia on 7 October 2024 to elect its next president.[1]
Diplomat and outgoing minister of foreign affairs Taye Atske Selassie was elected without contest to a six-year term amid tensions between former president Sahle-Work Zewde and prime minister Abiy Ahmed.[2]
A presidential candidate is required to be elected by a joint session of the House of Federation and the House of Peoples' Representatives, the upper house and lower house of the Ethiopian parliament, the Federal Parliamentary Assembly, respectively.[3]