Election
Election
The remarks come after months of attempts by the military’s proxy party to cast doubt on the...
Published on Jan 8, 2021
Booted from army for supporting NLD charter amendment, ex-major Kyaw Swar Win wants to reform an ‘unjust, unequal’ military system
Jun 23, 2020
Union Betterment Party plans to stand over 900 candidates, former general says
Jun 19, 2020
New selection process begins at the township level but still gives final say to central executive committee
Jun 2, 2020
Some feel Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings will hurt smaller campaigns, entrench incumbent advantage
May 5, 2020
Announcement signals a change from 2015, when senior party officials chose candidates in an opaque process
Mar 12, 2020
Military says move will expose soldiers to attacks, but lawmakers argue it will make election more open
Feb 21, 2020
The amendments will move polling places for military members and their families outside of barracks, where they can be monitored.
Nov 6, 2019
In the sea of the National League for Democracy’s overwhelming victory in Myanmar’s Nov. 8 elections there was a small island of success for the ruling party. Meikhtila, a city in...
Nov 24, 2015
In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is seen as a victory of the people over the military and its ruling political elite. It’s a price...
Nov 19, 2015
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on Sunday, where opposition candidates are mounting a strong challenge to ruling party dominance...
Nov 8, 2015
Thein Nyunt, chairman of the New National Democracy Party, is a well-known MP in the Lower House of parliament. He was an elected candidate of Thinganggyun Township constituency,...
Nov 7, 2015
In October two years ago, Zaw Lin ran to the top of a forested hill behind his thatch-roof farm house in this tiny hamlet of Pauktaw in Myanmar’s southern Rakhine state. His family is...
Nov 6, 2015
