Recommendation 5 (Election Administration) Ethiopia 2010
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Serious efforts should be taken to limit the involvement of governmental administrative structures, down to kebele level, in the organisation and implementation of the electoral process. The development of an independent structure for the NEBE throughout the country, gradually diminishing its dependence on local administrative structures should be envisaged. These measures could prevent and curtail suspicions of governmental control of the electoral process as well as the blurred separation between the state and the ruling party in electoral activities and the undue use of state resources at regional and local levels.
