Week 27: 2010 Election Watch (7-13 September)

Developments

• The Myanmar Democracy Congress and the Myanmar New Society Democratic Party failed to field at least three candidates as required by the SPDC election laws. Myanmar Democracy Congress General Secretary Kaung Htet announced that the party would boycott the upcoming elections because of the SPDC Election Commission’s “unacceptable and unsatisfactory” actions […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (033-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖံြ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးပါတီ NUP တုိ႔သည္ မဲဆႏၵနယ္အမ်ားစုတြင္ အဓိကျပိဳင္ဘက္မ်ားျဖစ္လာေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္မည္႔ႏိုင္ငံေရး သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေလ႔လာသုံးသပ္သူမ်ားကေျပာသည္။ […]

Week 26: 2010 Election Watch (31 August – 6 September)

Developments

• The Zomi National Congress and the Committee Representing the People’s Parliament decided to boycott the elections.
• SPDC authorities in Dala Township, Rangoon Division, briefly detained an NLD organizer for distributing leaflets that urged people not to vote in the elections […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (032-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ဖလမ္းျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္မဲအေရအတြက္ သိရွိလုိသျဖင့္ ပါတီဝင္မ်ားထံမွ ၾကိဳတင္မဲစာရင္းေကာက္ယူမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနသည္ဟု ျမိဳ႕နယ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္အဖြဲ႔ဝင္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

Week 25: 2010 Election Watch (24-30 August)

Developments

• Union Democracy Party Chairman Thein Htay said that the party had decided to field only three candidates nationwide to protest the SPDC election laws. National Democratic Force leader Khin Muang Swe said he would not stand for election because of the SPDC Election Commission’s restrictions […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (031-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အေနာက္ပိုိင္း ဘူးသီးေတာင္ႏွင့္ေမာင္းေတာ ျမိဳ႔႕နယ္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို မက္လုံးေပးစည္းရုံးသည္႔အေနျဖင့္ ယာယီႏုိင္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ အျဖဴေရာင္ကတ္မ်ားအား ေငြက်ပ္ ၂၀၀၀ ျဖင္႔ထုတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္းခရီးသြားလာရာ တြင္ လြတ္လပ္မႈမရွိေၾကာင္း ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးေလ႔လာသူတစ္ဦးကေျပာ[…]

Week 24: 2010 Election Watch (17-23 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission published Notification 91/2010 which requires candidates to seek approval for public speeches seven days in advance.. In addition, candidates cannot give speeches or distribute materials that criticize the constitution, “tarnish” the image of the state or the military, or “harm security. As with earlier regulations on campaign activities, chanting slogans, marching or carrying flags are prohibited as part of candidate rallies […]

Political Defiance Committee Monthly News Commentary – August 2010

The National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB)’s Political Defiance Committee (PDC) is compiling and commentating on monthly political news. These reports include information on the relationship between NLD and the military junta, the activities of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and domestic opposition forces, the relationship between ethnic groups and the SPDC, the junta’s domestic activities, the socio-economic situation in Burma and the international community’s actions and responses […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (030-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဝါးရုံစြန္းရြာတြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအား ေငြေခ်း၍ မဲဆြယ္စည္းရုံးရာတြင္ ေက်းရြာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက လုိက္လံ ကူညီေပးေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားကေျပာသည္
* အမ်ိဳးသာဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ NLDဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕သည္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ဧရာဝတီတိုင္း ေကာ႔ေသာင္းျမိဳ႕သို႔ေရာက္ရွိကာ NLD အေနျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္၍ ပိုမိုက်စ္လစ္ခုိင္မာစြာ ရပ္တည္ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားႏွင္႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးဖလွယ္ခဲ႔ၾကသည္

Week 23: 2010 Election Watch (10-16 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission set the election date for 7 November and also established a two-week filing period that ends on 30 August for political parties to submit their list of candidates for review and approval.
• The SPDC Election Commission designated constituencies for the National and Regional Parliaments […]