2020 Election
2020 Election
A dozen organizations have called on the military to avoid political instability and allow a...
Published on Jan 30, 2021
Spokesperson said anyone who can’t afford the fee ‘doesn’t have any credibility’
Sep 7, 2020
New candidates say the NLD’s poor performance in mining, ethnic affairs and handling the military means more opposition is needed in parliament
Sep 7, 2020
Michael Kyaw Myint and other candidates from his party have risked breaking election rules by saying they will defend religious values
Sep 3, 2020
The Arakan National Party said the decision to bar Phoe San was illegitimate and ‘based on assumptions’
Sep 1, 2020
NLD lawmaker says party ‘will not sit idly by’ while nationalists ‘violate election laws’
Aug 28, 2020
With nationalists on the back foot and observers allowed access to military polling booths, the NLD’s odds have improved since 2015 upset
Aug 28, 2020
Comments to several opposition parties seen as thinly veiled attack on the NLD
Aug 20, 2020
The five men are appealing the decision to bar them from running in the November poll
Aug 20, 2020
Former generals and military-backed ministers will vie for seats in the hope of eroding the NLD’s huge majority
Aug 13, 2020
Soldiers voted at sites on 844 military bases in 2015, in practice critics say hinders free and transparent elections
Aug 5, 2020
End of alliance a blow to military-backed party, which won almost half of its seats in Shan state in 2015
Jul 31, 2020
Unusual 2019 rule change means party won’t accept lawmakers’ resignations until after 2020 election, so they can’t join rival parties
Jul 24, 2020
