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Burma to hold general election on 8 November
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Burma to hold general election on 8 November
Historic general election set to be the first contested by Aung San Suu Kyi’s
opposition in 25 years, although she is constitutionally barred from presidency
Oliver Holmes and agencies
Wednesday 8 July 2015 17.39 BST
Burma will hold a general election on 8 November in a vote that holds the promise of being the next step towards full democracy for a nation run by a repressive military junta for nearly half a century.
The announcement on Wednesday came two weeks after Burma’s parliament voted against constitutional amendments that observers said would allow Aung San Suu Kyi – who spent 15 years under house arrest – to run for the presidency. But the Nobel peace laureate’s National League for Democracy party is expected to win a considerable number of seats in both houses of parliament.
“The general election will be held on 8 November. The union election commission will announce further details later,” Thant Zin Aung, deputy director of the election commission, told Agence France-Presse.
The NLD won the election in 1990 but the result was ignored by the military. The party boycotted the next nationwide poll, which was not held until 2010 and was condemned by international observers for widespread irregularities.
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Historic general election set to be the first contested by Aung San Suu Kyi’s
opposition in 25 years, although she is constitutionally barred from presidency
Oliver Holmes and agencies
Wednesday 8 July 2015 17.39 BST
Burma will hold a general election on 8 November in a vote that holds the promise of being the next step towards full democracy for a nation run by a repressive military junta for nearly half a century.
The announcement on Wednesday came two weeks after Burma’s parliament voted against constitutional amendments that observers said would allow Aung San Suu Kyi – who spent 15 years under house arrest – to run for the presidency. But the Nobel peace laureate’s National League for Democracy party is expected to win a considerable number of seats in both houses of parliament.
“The general election will be held on 8 November. The union election commission will announce further details later,” Thant Zin Aung, deputy director of the election commission, told Agence France-Presse.
The NLD won the election in 1990 but the result was ignored by the military. The party boycotted the next nationwide poll, which was not held until 2010 and was condemned by international observers for widespread irregularities.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/burma-to-hold-general-election-on-8-november