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    The Need to Reform Electoral Law of Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Gashaw, Gezahegn; Assefa, Getachew (Associate Professor)
    The existence of modern state established on the basis of full participation of the people, political actors and the will of the people. The component and the realization of democracy addresses voters, candidates and political parties shall exist to run election. The forgoing three components shall have a game to play their role. This game must be complemented with electoral laws. Therefore, electoral laws are the game that displays the parties on the will of the people. Having the above in mind, this paper fully devoted in addressing electoral laws and what matters to be embodied under those electoral laws to conduct the election. International electoral principles and domestic electoral laws were evaluated in a critical manner to get experiences, to identify the gaps in accordance with the benchmark of different countries. The discrepancies under Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia(FDRE) Constitution and the subsequent effective legislation of electoral law, electoral system, electoral management bodies, electoral principles, electoral constituency and party system were carefully denoted were described article by article. Finally, discrepancies were critically picked and substantiated to show the need to reform electoral law of Ethiopia. Key words: Election, electoral system and electoral management bodies.