The Punch
Ethiopiaโs President Mulatu Teshome on Wednesday filed resignation request to the Ethiopian Parliament, State news agency ENA reported.
Teshome, who has been the East African countryโs head of state since October 2013, on Wednesday submitted his letter of resignation as the Ethiopian parliamentโs two houses are scheduled to consider his resignation.
The houses would eventually name his successor in a joint extraordinary session on Thursday, the report said.
The joint extraordinary session of the Ethiopian parliament on Thursday โwill deliberate on the presidentโs application for resignation and will elect a new president,โโ according to ENA.
The erstwhile president, who conducted his doctoral studies in international law at Peking University in China, was unanimously appointed as Ethiopiaโs president on October 7, 2013 while he was serving as Ethiopiaโs ambassador to Turkey.
Teshome is a member of Oromo Democratic Party, one of the four member parties of the ruling Ethiopian Peopleโs Revolutionary Democratic Front.
Teshomeโs imminent resignation also came shortly after Ethiopian governmentโs cabinet reshuffle.
The Ethiopian House of Peopleโs Representatives, the Ethiopian parliamentโs lower house, earlier approved the appointment of 16 new cabinet members upon the endorsement of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, in which only four of the previous cabinetโs members remained in their positions.
Teshome, 63, had served in various high-level Ethiopian government offices and ministries as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Cooperation, Minister of Agriculture, and Spokesperson of the House of Federation.
He had also served in various diplomatic missions representing the east African country to China, Turkey, Japan, Thailand and Azerbaijan.
