FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Ethiopia elections: PM Abiy Ahmed faces first vote amid conflict” – below is their description.
This Monday’s #elections in #Ethiopia should be a triumph of democracy, but major problems – not least a war in the country’s #Tigray region – are casting a dark cloud. Human rights groups are disappointed with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after what was seen as a promising start to his mandate in 2018. He was credited with freeing political prisoners, putting women into high office and allowing more media freedom. But now jailings have increased and the war overshadows everything. We speak to Martin Plaut, a journalist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
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Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.
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