Political Leaders: Ethiopia

Leaders of Ethiopia
(Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)

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(Active names link to their correspondant biography at the CIDOB website)

Parties: EWP: Ethiopian Workers' Party; TPLF: Tigray People's Liberation Front; OPDO: Oromo People's Democratic Organization; EPRDF: Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front; EPDM: Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement

Heads of State

Emperor (Negus)
Haile Selassie I             3 Apr 1930 - 12 Sep 1974 (+1975)  [picture1][picture2][picture3](1)

Chairmen of the Provisional Military Administration Council  
Aman Mikael Andom           12 Sep 1974 - 17 Nov 1974 (+)s     [picture] military (2)
Mengistu Haile Mariam       17 Nov 1974 - 28 Nov 1974          [picture] military (2)
Tafari Benti                28 Nov 1974 -  3 Feb 1977 (+)a     [picture] military (2)
Mengistu Haile Mariam       11 Feb 1977 - 10 Sep 1987          [picture] military/EWP

Presidents of the Republic
Mengistu Haile Mariam       10 Sep 1987 - 21 May 1991          [picture] EWP
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan         21 May 1991 - 27 May 1991 (+2004)            EWP (acting)

President of the Provisional Government 
Meles Zenawi                27 May 1991 - 22 Aug 1995          [picture] TPLF/EPRDF (interim) (3)

President of the Republic
Negaso Gidada               22 Aug 1995 -  8 Oct 2001          [picture] OPDO
Girma Wolde-Giyorgis Lucha   8 Oct 2001 -                      [picture] EPRDF

(1) In exile during the Italian occupation, from May 1936 to 18 Jan 1941.
(2) Nominally heads of State for King Asfa Wossen Haile Selassie (son of the Negus, crowned in 1989 in exile as Amha Selassie I and dead in 1997), who did not assume this office from his father overthrown, on 12 Sep 1974, to the abolition of the monarchy, on 21 Mar 1975.
(3) Prime minister acting as interim president. To 23 Jul 1991 only chairman of the Supreme Council of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, guerrilla).

Prime Ministers

Makonnen Endelkacew                1942 -  1 Nov 1957 (+1963)  [picture]
Abebe Aragai                27 Nov 1957 - 15 Dec 1960 (+1960)
Teshafi Aklilu Abte-Wold    17 Apr 1961 -  1 Mar 1974 (+1974)e [picture]
Endelkacew Makonnen          1 Mar 1974 - 22 Jul 1974 (+1974)e [picture]
Mikael Imru                  3 Aug 1974 - 12 Sep 1974          [picture]
Fikre Selassie Wogderess    10 Sep 1987 -  8 Nov 1989                    EWP 
Haile Yimenu                 8 Nov 1989 - 26 Apr 1991 (+1991)s           EWP (acting)
Tesfaye Dinka               26 Apr 1991 -  6 Jun 1991                    EWP (acting)
Tamirat Laynie               6 Jun 1991 - 22 Aug 1995                    EPDM (acting)
Meles Zenawi                22 Aug 1995 -                      [picture] TPLF/EPRDF

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