Lomi Bedo

Bedo was elected and sworn in Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives on 4 October 2021 after the 2021 general election.^[1][2] She is the supervisor of the Women Parliamentary Caucus.^[3]

In February 2022, Bedo and Gayo Asherbiri were elected members of the Ethiopian delegation to the Pan African Parliament.^[4]

She visited the Parliament of South Africa through a UN Women mission in July 2023.^[3] In October 2025, Bedo described Ethiopia's exclusion from access to the Red Sea as a “historic mistake” and called on the citizens to support the Ethiopian government's diplomatic efforts to secure that access to the sea.^[5]

In March 2026 she visited India at the head of a delegation of 32 female deputies where she met with Minister Jitendra Singh Rana in New Delhi as part of a training programme on women's leadership organised by the National Centre for Good Governance.^[6]