USDP

USDP

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Supporters of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) marched in the...
Published on Jan 29, 2021
Senior NLD officials at a flag-raising ceremony in Naypyitaw to mark the start of the election on September 8 (Nyan Hlaing Linn/Myanmar Now)
Top party officials said there is no ‘credible’ reason to change November 8 polling date
Sep 16, 2020
‘Nothing like this has ever happened in our village’ said one local (Supplied)
Maung Maung Swe filed a case with the police after the board was slashed with a knife
Sep 11, 2020
USDP Party's Headquarter at Naypyidaw (Photo - Sai Zaw/Myanmar Now)
Former generals and military-backed ministers will vie for seats in the hope of eroding the NLD’s huge majority
Aug 13, 2020
The ethnic minority Pa-O in Myanmar has been perceived as being too close to the military leadership over the past few decades. (Photo: Pa-O National Organisation) 
End of alliance a blow to military-backed party, which won almost half of its seats in Shan state in 2015
Jul 31, 2020
Retired army generals attend the fifth central committee meeting of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in September 2019. (Photo- Union Solidarity and Development Party Facebook Page)
Following NLD’s lead, the military-aligned party says it will select candidates from lists from township constituencies
Jul 1, 2020
Shipping containers at the Asia World Port on May 28 (Sai Zaw/Myanmar Now)
Generous contract terms mean the USDP has made millions of US dollars in fees paid by importers and exporters, even though many never even used the party’s cargo scanner
Jun 10, 2020
T Khun Myat enters parliament in 2019. (Photo: Nyan Hlaing Lin/Myanmar Now)
It is the first attempt to impeach a speaker in a decade
May 29, 2020
Around 100 people staged a protest in Yangon’s Seikkan township on Wednesday (Photo: Mung San Aung / Myanmar Now)
Nay Myo Aung says merging Seikkan with neighbouring townships will hit USDP hardest
Oct 31, 2019
Military’s proxy party wanted to avoid NLD-dominated committee by putting its own proposed changes to charter before parliament
Sep 5, 2019
A crowd marches from Swal Daw pagoda in Mayangone township to Kabar Aye pagoda on 11 June (Photo- Sai Zaw/ Myanmar Now)
Attendees at protests in support of the fugitive monk were paid and bused in, a source says, with many unaware who they were marching and praying for.
Jun 26, 2019
NLD candidate U Than Htike Aung. (Photo: Mung San Aung/Myanmar Now)
A Union Election Commission tribunal has ruled to remove a USDP regional lawmaker from his seat after finding him guilty of cheating during his November 2018 by-election campaign.
May 30, 2019
Many farmers from Sulegone group of Kyaukse Township in Mandalay region participated in the plough protest to reclaim the farmlands on 6 April 2019 (Photo by Khin Hnin Wai/Myanmar Now)
Party is earning money off land that demonstrators say was seized from them 20 years ago
Apr 10, 2019

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