In this Ethiopian name, the name Gebremichael is a patronymic, and the person should be referred by the given name, Debretsion.
Debretsion Gebremichael
ደብረጽዮን ገብረሚካኤል
Debretsion in 2014
President of the Tigray Region
In office 9 January 2018 – 3 March 2023 Disputed with Mulu Nega from 13 November 2020 to 6 May 2021 Disputed with Abraham Balay from 6 May 2021
Vice President
Fetlework Gebregziabher
Preceded by
Abay Weldu
Succeeded by
Getachew Reda (Interim Regional Administration of Tigray)
Chairman of the Tigray People's Liberation Front
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2017
Deputy
Fetlework Gebregziabher
Preceded by
Abay Weldu
Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia
In office 29 November 2012 – 6 November 2016
Serving with Demeke Mekonnen and Aster Mamo
Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn
Preceded by
Hailemariam Desalegn
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
In office 10 October 2012 – 8 January 2018
Prime Minister
Hailemariam Desalegn
Preceded by
Position established (Promoted to ministry status)
Director of Ethiopian Information and Communication Development Agency
In office 19 September 2005 – 10 October 2010
Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi
Preceded by
Ayenew Bitewelign
Succeeded by
Position abolished (Promoted to ministry status)
Personal details
Born
early 1960s Shire, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire
Political party
Tigray People's Liberation Front
Alma mater
Addis Ababa University (BSc, MSc) Capella University (PhD)
Debretsion Gebremichael (Tigrinya: ደብረጽዮን ገብረሚካኤል, pronunciation: [dɐbrɐtsʼjongɐbrɐmikäe̯l]) is an Ethiopian politician serving as the chairman of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). He was previously the president of the Tigray Region.[1][2] His position as titular head of the Tigray Region was disputed by the federal government of Ethiopia who in November 2020 appointed Mulu Nega as the chief executive of the Transitional Government of Tigray, succeeded by Abraham Belay. From July 2021 to March 2023, Debretsion again led the Tigray Region, while Abraham Belay left the transitional government to become Ethiopia's minister of Defence.
His party nominally won all 152 contested seats and 98.2% of the votes of the 2020 Tigray regional election,[3] which was held in defiance of the federal government that had postponed the elections because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.
^"Debretsion clinches top TPLF position". The Reporter. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
^Hairsine, Kate (27 November 2020). "Ethiopia: Who is Tigray's leader Debretsion Gebremichael?". DW. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 5 April 2021. "We will never back down for anyone who is intending to suppress our hard-won right to self-determination and self-rule," Debretsion Gebremichael said ahead of the elections. Going ahead with the regional elections ratcheted up the simmering tensions between the TPLF and Abiy's government — tensions that have now sparked into an all-out battle. Now, the engineer and former minister Debretsion finds himself leading a war. And his name is the first of 64 listed on an arrest warrant seeking TFPL officials on terrorism and treason charges.
^Cite error: The named reference BBC_Tigray2020_election_results was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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