{"id":4687,"date":"2013-10-07T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2013-10-08T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T12:50:21","slug":"ethiopian-parliament-selects-dr-mulatu-teshome-wirtu-as-the-new-president-of-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4687","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian parliament appoints a new President of Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mulatu-Teshome-Wirtu-sworn-in-as-President-of-Ethiopia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4688\" alt=\"Mulatu Teshome Wirtu sworn in as President of Ethiopia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mulatu-Teshome-Wirtu-sworn-in-as-President-of-Ethiopia.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mulatu-Teshome-Wirtu-sworn-in-as-President-of-Ethiopia.jpg 258w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mulatu-Teshome-Wirtu-sworn-in-as-President-of-Ethiopia-220x162.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>Ethiopia&#8217;s parliament today selected Dr Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, Ethiopia&#8217;s ambassador to Turkey, as the country&#8217;s new president.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Wirtu took the oath of office at a televised ceremony on Monday morning. He replaces Girma Woldegiorgis, who has served two 6-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>The new president is an executive committee member of the Oromo People&#8217;s Democratic Organization (OPDO), one of the five parties that make up the ruling coalition, Ethiopian People&#8217;s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s presidency has only ceremonial role. Executive power rests with the prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s parliament today selected Dr Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, Ethiopia&#8217;s ambassador to Turkey, as the country&#8217;s new president. Dr Wirtu took the oath of office at a televised ceremony on Monday morning. He replaces Girma Woldegiorgis, who has served two 6-year<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4687\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,39,36,37,38,41],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}