Ethiopian Democratic Party Amharic: የኢትዮጵያውያን ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ | |
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| President | Adane Tadesse |
| Secretary-General | Sahlu Baye |
| Founded | 1974 (EDU) 1999 (EDP) |
| Dissolved | January 2021 |
| Merged into | Hibir Ethiopia Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Addis Ababa |
| Ideology | Liberal nationalism Economic liberalism Ethiopian nationalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Regional affiliation | Africa Liberal Network |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Website | |
| edponline.org | |
The Ethiopian Democratic Party (Amharic: ከኢትዮጵያዊያን ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ)[romanization needed] is a political party in Ethiopia. The result of no less than five mergers of liberal and conservative liberal opposition parties, it could trace its roots to the Ethiopian Democratic Union, which mounted armed monarchist resistance to the Derg in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of Haile Selassie I. In the legislative elections held on 15 May 2005, the United Ethiopian Democratic Party – Medhin, as it was then known, was part of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces, that won 52 out of 527 seats in the Council of People's Representatives. It won no seats in the 2010 elections.