[5][6] After the fall of the Derg and the EPRDF seized the power, Article 39 of the 1995 Constitution was ratified the status of ethnicity of Ethiopia, giving full rights of secessionist seIf-determination.
In the constitution, self-determination is radical right, by terminating the past unitary structure where all ethnic groups discontented by the policy and potentially form federation.
(4) The exercise of self-determination, includes secession of every nation, nationality and people in Ethiopia is governed by the following procedures: (a) when a demand for secession has been approved by a two-third majority of the members of legislative council of any nation, nationality or people; (b) when the Federal Government has organized a referendum which must takes place within three years from the time it received the concerned Council's decision to secession; (c) when the demand for secession is supported by a majority vote in the referendum; (d) when the Federal Government will have transferred to the people or their council its powers; and (e) when the division of assets is effected on the basis of law enacted for that purpose.
(5) A nation, nationality or people for the purpose of this constitution is a group of people who have or share a large measure of a common culture, or similar customs, mutual intelligibility of language, belief in a common or related identities, and who predominantly inhabit an identifiable, contiguous territory.
Since 2006, the holiday is celebrated, adorned by festivals participating the country's eighty ethnic groups gathering in every cities and dancing with their music and traditional attire to demonstrate unity and diversity.