Debates on Election Media Share
Although opposition parties continue to debate election media distribution, others advise them to fully utilise their share The National Electorate Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) and the Ethiopian Broadcast Agency (EBA) have amended the ratio for allotted air time for broadcasting on radio and television, and newspaper space, for contesting parties, during the campaign period for the upcoming Addis Abeba city council and local elections. The directive that became effective on Monday, March 11, 2013, dictates that 30pc of the use of media air time and newspaper space will be allocated on the basis of the number of seats a party has in the parliaments, both at the federal and regional levels. Then, 20pc will be based on the number of candidates that are in the running, whilst the remaining 50pc will be equally shared between all parties. The current ratio of media share is much different, when compared to the previous local elections, which assigned 60pc to parliament seats, 10pc fo