Addisu Legesse Explained

Addisu Legesse
Native Name:አዲሱ ለገሰ
Office1:Chairman of the Amhara Democratic Party
Term Start1:1992
Term End1:2010
Predecessor1:position established
Successor1:Demeke Mekonnen
Office2:Chief Administrator of Amhara Region
Term Start2:1992
Term End2:2000
Predecessor2:position established
Successor2:Ayalew Gobeze
Office3:Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Term Start3:2001
Term End3:1 September 2010
Predecessor3:post established
Successor3:Hailemariam Desalegn
Office4:Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Term Start4:2000
Term End4:2008
Nationality:Ethiopian
Party:Amhara Democratic Party
Otherparty:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement

Addisu Legesse is an Ethiopian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2000 to 2010. He was formerly the chairman of the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), the Amhara region branch of the ruling EPRDF from 1992, a position from which he retired in 2010. He was also President of the Amhara Region from 1992 until 2000 and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development until 2008.[1] He then served as chairman of Ethiopian Airlines.[2] He was a head of the Meles Zenawi Academy, a quasi educational institution that is designed to train future EPRDF cadres in the ideology of Zenawism.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ethiopia. WorldStatesmen. 20 August 2013.
  2. Web site: Addisu Legesse replaces Seyoum Mesfin as Ethiopian board chairman. Nazret.com. 20 August 2013. 10 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160810020639/http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/02/ethiopia-addisu-legesse-replaces-seyoum-mesfin-as-ethiopian-board-chairman. dead.
  3. Web site: Ethiopia - the Maoist hallmarks of Melesism . 2016-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160810020742/http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/ethiopia_the_maoist_hallmarks_of_melesis?blog=15 . 2016-08-10 . dead .