Ethiopian Democratic Party

Ethiopian Democratic Party Amharic: የኢትዮጵያውያን ዴሞክራሲያዊ ፓርቲ
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
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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.