Burma’s Military Regime Announces Election Date

By Burma Partnership • August 13, 2010

The regime’s election commission has announced the long-awaited poll date for the 2010 elections: November 7, 2010. State-run TV and radio ran the election commission’s brief statement earlier today. The statement also called on political parties to submit candidate lists between 16 and 30 August.

The statement came close on the heels of Thursday’s announcement of the list of lower-house constituencies for the upcoming elections.

Numerologists have long speculated on the date of Burma’s elections this year. One popular rumour pinned the elections to be held on 10 October 2010, while others believed they would be on 12 December 2010. The regime’s choice of date does appear equally significant, with 7 + 11 = 18 and 1 + 8 = 9. Nine is an auspicious number in Burmese numerology.

November 7 is also exactly one week before Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s release. With Daw Suu still under house arrest, this choice of election date demonstrates yet again that the regime does not intend to suffer the same humiliating defeat as in the 1990 elections.

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