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Show 57 1992,26 in identity. Proclamations passed whose provisions were later incorporated into the 1994 Constitution without major changes, established ethnically based regional states, and all indications Ethiopia second were that important policy broadly stipulated initiative the intention to to be was was move the drafting from private-led system (Transitional Government an the reorganized a of planned of Ethiopia as a a new federal economic economy towards 1991). republic. policy, a which market- and The government reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the W orld Bank (WB) implementation of Ethiopia In of a stabilization-cum-adjustment program (Transitional 1994, a constitution process begun during of Republic adopted. was republic, a regionalization of program of the Transitional ethnicity with: "We, the The in the constitution and hence the Ethiopia (FDRE). Perhaps Constitution is the type of federal system it set up. importance Government formalized the Transitional Period and established system of government. It established Democratic on 1992, 1993, 1993a). regionalization Ethiopian the biggest Building upon name a federal the Federal milestone in the the decentralization and Period, the Constitution formalizes the state. The preamble to the Constitution approach," Nahum, a long-time student of Ethiopian begins constitutions, emphatically wrote: One feature of great import throughout the Constitution, and one that places this constitution on a pedestal of its own more or less is the utmost significance given to the ethno-linguistic components of the society. The preamble people Ethiopia the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia." Noting "this rather unusual constitutional 26 The of the Constitution does not open with the familiar 'We the ; it is 'We, the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of This is not a constitution of the Ethiopian citizens simply ' ' Proclamations 7/1992, 33/1992, and 4111993. |
