At last, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) officially ended the registration of parties running in the May 2010 election on February 22, 2010. The registration of voters ended the same day. Candidates are being fielded by 57 parties, with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) fielding the most, closely followed by the Forum for Federal and Democratic Dialogue. The two have brought forward 460 and 396 candidates for the Federal Parliament elections, respectively, followed by a wider margin by the All Ethiopia Unity Party (AEUP), Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), and the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), which are fielding 295, 231 and 143 candidates, respectively. At the time these figures were compiled, the NEBE was yet to receive the data for last few days of registration.