Abstract:
This article attempted to explore the Nature, Changes, and Continuities of the Ethiopian parliament under three regimes. Accordingly, the author argues that there are changes and continuities in Ethiopian parliament making, executions, and responsibilities under three regimes. However, there are more or less similar objectives of the parliament of the country and continuities in terms of core values. The study used secondary sources from books, articles, publications published and unpublished from government and non-governmental organizations reports, and web sources, the data collected are qualitative, the research is based on qualitative data analysis techniques. The findings of the article show a national decision-maker or parliament will decide for a country based on free and relatively fair elections. Political parties, ethnic groups, and women's participation in Parliament were different in every regime. It has proved in the full and free exercise of the right to self-determination of the people and it has changed to people that have sovereign power of citizens of Ethiopia; Legislative initiative has changed into a house. Regardless of, change in orientation and style of parliament, internal and external issues linger as decisive elements of the parliament system under three regimes. It is understood that the nature of the parliament change when the constitution changes.
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