The Afar National Democratic Party (, ANDP; , QADB) was a
political party
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in
Ethiopia
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.
At the
legislative
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elections
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held on 15 May 2005, the party won 8 seats, all from the
Afar Region
The Afar Region (; ; ), formerly known as Region 2, is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Afar people. Its capital is the planned city of Semera, which lies on the paved Awash, Ethiopia, Awash� ...
. The current Minister of Social Affairs and the Deputy Chairman of Pastoralist Affairs are members of the party.
It was reported that the ANDP was created in the latter half of 1999 from a merger of the Afar Liberation Front (ALF) and the
Afar People's Democratic Organization
Afar may refer to:
Peoples and languages
*Afar language, an East Cushitic language
*Afar people, an ethnic group of Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia
Places Horn of Africa
*Afar Desert or Danakil Desert, a desert in Ethiopia
*Afar Region, a regiona ...
with three smaller organizations—the Afar National Liberation Front, the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) and the Afar National Democratic Movement. However, there have been more recent reports indicating that the ALF and ARDUF continued operate as independent organizations.
In the August 2005 Regional assembly elections, the party won 84 out of 87 seats in the Afar Region.
In December 2019, the party merged with the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), the
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(BGPDUF), the
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