The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (Amharic: የኦሮሞ ፌደራሊስት ዴሞክራቲክ ንቅናቄ?, Oromo: Warraaqsa Federaalistii Uummata Oromoo, OFDM) is a political party in Ethiopia, created to further the interests of the Oromo people. At the last legislative elections, on 15 May 2005, the party won 11 seats, all from the Oromia Region. The party Whip is Mesfin Nemera Deriesa from the Mirab Welega Zone. The Chairman is Bulcha Demeksa.
In the August 2005 Regional assembly elections, the party won 10 out of 537 seats in the Oromia Region. Bulcha Demeksa, announced in mid-April that his party would boycott the second round of voting in the 2008 Ethiopian local elections, joining a number of other opposition parties. Despite this, the OFDM picked up one seat in the 116 towns which held elections for their administrative councils.
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