Tagesse Chafo

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Tagesse Chafo
ታገሰ ጫፎ
Tagesse in 2019
Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 October 2018
Preceded byMuferiat Kamil
Personal details
BornSNNPR, Ethiopia
Political partyProsperity Party
Other political
affiliations		Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement

Tagesse Chafo (Amharic: ታገሰ ጫፎ) is an Ethiopian politician and current Speaker of the House of Peoples Representatives. He was elected as speaker on 18 October 2018 succeeding Muferiat Kamil who became the Minister of Peace.[1][2] He was re-elected as the Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives on 4 October 2021.[3]

Prior to becoming Speaker, Tagesse was the Minister for Public Service and Human Resource Development.[4]

  1. ^ "Ethiopian parliament elected Tagesse Chafo as Speaker of the House". Borkena. 18 October 2018. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Abiye, Yonas (20 October 2018). "On top of the House". The Reporter. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Tagese Chafo Re-elected as Speaker of Newly Formed House of Peoples' Representative". Ethiopian News Agency. 4 October 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  4. ^ editor4. "HPR Elects Tagesse Chafo as its New Speaker | Ethiopian News Agency". Retrieved 2019-03-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[dead link]