Negasso Gidada
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Negasso Gidada
1st President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
In office 22 August 1995 – 8 October 2001
Prime Minister	Meles Zenawi
Succeeded by	Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Member of the House of Peoples' Representatives for Dembidolo
Incumbent
Assumed office  2005
Born	September 1943 Dembidolo, Ethiopia
Political party	EPRDF(-22 June 2001) Independent (2005-
Spouse	Regina Abelt
Religion	Protestant

Dr. Negasso Gidada Solon (born 1943) was the President of Ethiopia from 1995 until 2001. He is the son of the famous Gidada Solon, one of the first local ministers of the protestant church in the Dembidolo area in western Ethiopia. He became president when his predecessor, Meles Zenawi became prime minister on August 22, 1995, and left office when his term expired on October 8, 2001. Before the end of his term, he was expelled from both the OPDO and the EPRDF coalition on June 22.^[1]

In the 2005 general elections, Dr. Negasso was elected to the Ethiopian House of People's Representatives as an independent from Dembidolo in the Mirab Welega Zone of the Oromia Region. Nagasso holds a doctorate in social history from the Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main and is currently a part time lecturer of history at the University of Addis Ababa.

Dr. Nagasso is married to Regina Abelt, a German nurse and midwife. Mrs. Abelt having been the First Lady of Ethiopia while holding the German Citizenship earned her considerable, yet unwanted, attention by the German and European tabloid press.

References

External links

• BBC News - Ethiopian president on offensive
• DEHAI NEWS - the referendum
• Ethiopian News Agency
• Ethiopian Reporter - demand for extraordinary parliamentary session
• Media ETHIOPIA People in Ethiopia

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