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Party leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the seat of Kawhmu. [7] In the 2015 general election, the NLD won a supermajority in both houses of the Assembly, paving the way for the country's first non-military president in 54 years. The NLD is an observer party of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.
The resounding victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in 2015 general elections has raised hope for a successful culmination of this transition. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The 2017 murder of Ko Ni , a prominent Muslim lawyer and a key member of Myanmar ’s governing National League for Democracy party and the Rohingya genocide is ...
Arakan Liberation Party; Arakan National Council; Chin National Front; Chin National Party; Chin Progressive Party; Communist Party of Burma (banned) Confederate Farmers Party; Dawei Nationalities Party; Democracy and Human Rights Party; Democracy and Peace Party; Democratic Party for a New Society; Ethnic National Development Party; Federal ...
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.
The National Democratic Force (NDF) was founded in June 2010 by Khin Maung Swe, Than Nyein, Thein Nyunt, and Win Naing, all of whom were prominent members of the NLD. They formed the party after the NLD executive committee refused to register with the Union Election Commission (UEC) and announced the NLD's intention to boycott the 2010 general ...
National Democratic Force, a break-away faction of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy; Democratic Party (Burma), formed by the daughters of eminent Burmese politicians in the 1950s such as U Nu, Kyaw Nyein and Ba Swe; Shan Nationalities Democratic Party, largest ethnic minority party, representing the Shan minority
Politics and elections Turkish general election, November 2015 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) wins Sunday's snap election with more than 49 percent of the vote. AKP, projected to get 316 seats in the 550-seat parliament, regains single-party rule just five months after losing it. (Washington Post) (BBC) (Al Jazeera) Prime Minister Ahmet ...
Alongside the National League for Democracy, it is one of Myanmar's two principal national parties. [4] USDP is the successor to the former ruling military junta's mass organisation, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, and serves as the electoral proxy of the Tatmadaw (military), which operates as a state within a state. Many of ...