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The National League of Democracy party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi roared to a landslide election victory, and she became her country’s leader after many hard years at the ...
The Tatmadaw deposed democratically elected leaders the day before newly-elected politicians could be sworn in. Democratic elections were forbidden until the ongoing state of emergency ended which was first projected to be on 1 February 2022, later it was extended to 1 February 2023. and as of February 2023, extended by another 6 months.
In January 2022, the junta reversed its plan to dissolve the NLD, with spokesman Zaw Min Tun saying that the NLD will decide whether to stand in the 2023 election. [36] In February 2023, the NLD announced it would not re-register as a political party under a strict new electoral law enacted by the junta the previous month. [ 16 ]
Myanmar general elections were held on 8 November 2015. These were the first openly contested elections held in Myanmar since 1990. The results gave the National League for Democracy an absolute majority of seats in both chambers of the national parliament, enough to ensure that its candidate would become president, while NLD leader Aung San ...
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Critics and Western countries have said Myanmar's election would be a sham, with more than 40 parties dissolved since the coup and prohibitive rules making it difficult for new ones to form or ...
Myanmar will hold a national census next month to compile voter lists for a general election and to analyze population and socioeconomic trends, the head of the military government said. Senior ...
5 May - Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty. [8] 6 May - The Motion Picture Award Presentation Ceremony, popularly known as Academy ceremony, was held for the first time in four years. Awards were presented for the films shown in theatre in 2019, 2020 and 2022.