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Show 158 Table 39: Powers and Functions of the House of Federation • • • The Federal Council has the power to interpret the Constitution. organize the Council of Constitutional Inquiry. It shall It shall, on the basis of the Constitution, decide on nationalities and • It shall their • (Article 62) claims based upon the unity based on their mutual consent. It shall exercise the powers and the functions concurrently of nations, and promote rights peoples to self-determination, including their right to secession. the promote equality of the peoples of Ethiopia enshrined in the constitution entrusted to it and the Council of Peoples'Representatives. • It shall strive to fmd solutions to • It shall determine the division of • disputes or revenues misunderstandings derived from that may arise between States. joint Federal and States the subsidies that the Federal Government may provide to the States. It shall order Federal intervention if any State, in violation of this constitutional order. • It shall establish ad hoc and • It shall elect the Source: tax sources and Constitution, endangers the permanent committees. Speaker and the Deputy Speaker rules and rules of procedure. The Ethiopian Constitution (1995). of the Council, and it shall adopt administrative |
