Italian Confederation of Workers Trade Union Condemns Junta’s Election Laws

The CISL harshly condemns the Burmese military junta and the unacceptable new election law that prohibits Burmese heroine Aung San Suu Kyi and the over 2,100 other political detainees from becoming candidates or voting in the upcoming elections.

This law is the tragic confirmation of the total lack of credibility of these elections […]

Week 1: 2010 Election Watch (9-15 March)

Developments

• The SPDC enacted five election laws. The SPDC Election Commission Law stated that the junta would handpick the new Election Commission (EC). The junta appointed a 17-member EC. The majority of the members are retired civil servants who served under the junta. The EC chairman Thein Soe is a former Major General who served as a military judge.[…]
March 17, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: 2010 Elections, Altsean-Burma, Election Laws  •  Read more ➤

Letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Your Excellency,

We, United Nationalities Alliance (UNA), have the honour to submit this letter of suggestions to help you put appropriate pressure on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) which has one‐sidedly promulgated the election laws which are not accordance with the UN’s suggestions. The laws are also against the opinions of international community and the actual desires of the people of Myanmar. […]

Activists assail Burmese junta’s election law, reiterate demands for reform

“Unless the military rulers of Burma seriously initiate tangible political reforms, the 2010 elections will be widely perceived as incredible and undemocratic. Any election law designed only to ensure victory for the military dictators is a garbage not worth recycling.”

Thus said Free Burma Coalition-Philippines (FBC-Phils) spokesperson Egoy Bans in reaction to election laws announced by Burma’s military government […]

Statement on SPDC’s 2010 Election Law

1. We the KNU strongly condemn the SPDC military regime for the ‘Election Laws’ dated March 8, 2010, promulgated by the SPDC Chairman Senior Gen. Than Shwe. The Election Laws exclude legitimate leaders of the people, including those of the ethnic organizations, from the elections the SPDC is going to hold in this year, and giving excessive powers to the Election Commission which will be filled with persons handpicked by it.[…]

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) is outraged by the election laws recently announced by the military government of Myanmar

Repeated calls for assurances that the upcoming elections will be free and inclusive have gone unheeded as the new laws make clear the regime’s absolute lack of commitment to democratic principles to ensure free, fair and inclusive elections.

Under the new election laws all political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, are excluded from forming or participating in political parties and from contesting seats in the national and state assemblies. Certain provisions of the new laws appear to specifically target Aung San Suu Kyi, forcing her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) which overwhelmingly won in the previous 1990 elections, to expel her should it wish to register with the new Election Commission and contest the upcoming elections.[…]

Open Letter to Senior General Than Shwe

Dear Senior General Than Shwe,

The Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) has noticed the announcement by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) of new electoral laws in preparation for the planned elections this year.

We are very disappointed with the electoral laws, which exclude Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,100 political prisoners from political participation […]

Statement on Military Clique’s Election Laws

1. We the NDF denounce the Election Laws from Number 1/2010 to 5/2010 promulgated by the SPDC military clique on March 8, 2010, as they are completely devoid of fairness and as they will not lead to establishment of the basic rights of the ethnic nationalities and basic democratic structures.

2. The laws eliminate all the political parties, including the NLD and the ethnic parties, failing to follow the rules and regulations, imposed one-sidedly by the SPDC, and unfairly limit participation of the public in politics. […]

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (လြပ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) မွ နအဖ၏ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားမွတ္ပုံတင္ျခင္း အပါအဝင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒမ်ားအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (လြပ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) မွ နအဖ၏ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားမွတ္ပုံတင္ျခင္း အပါအဝင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဆုိင္ရာ ဥပေဒမ်ားအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာလုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ နအဖ တို႔ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ ဥပေဒမ်ားသည္ ျပည္သူလူထုတရပ္လုံး၏ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကို လုံးဝဆန္႔က်င္ မ်က္ကြယ္ျပဳလုိက္ျပီး စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား အာဏာတည္ျမဲေရးအတြက္ အတင္းအဓၶမ အႏိုင္က်င္႔ျပဳ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ ကိုတိတိလင္းလင္း ေဖၚထုပ္လုိက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စသည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားအပါအဝင္ ထုိထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ ဥေပေဒမ်ားကုိ မတရားဥပေဒမ်ားအၿဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ျပီး ဆန္႔က်င္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စသည္မ်ား ပါဝင္ပါသည္။[…]

Buzek on Burma/Myanmar new election laws: “This is a move in the wrong direction”

Buzek: “I deplore the election laws as they target pro-democracy campaigners such as Aung San Suu Kyi”

“I deplore the decision of Burma/Myanmar authorities on the new election laws. These laws clearly target pro-democracy campaigners such as Aung San Suu Kyi. They are politically motivated and restrictive. This is a move in the wrong direction. I am disappointed and doubt that the elections promised for later this year would be inclusive, free and fair.”[…]