WHEREAS, it is necessary to regulate by law the conditions by which citizens using their freedom of association in accordance with the Constitution for participating in peaceful and lawful political activities to assume political power;
WHEREAS, it is necessary, to provide the right and duty of citizens when forming political parties and acting as members of political parties, and also by providing basic principles to be followed by political parties to enable the political parties to act upon having legal personality;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide the manner by which political parties able to act by forming union or front or coalition;
NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows:
