Party official Win Htein acknowledges that despite efforts to select the best individuals to stand as candidates in the 2015 election, some have turned out to be “seeds that didn’t sprout” since taking their seats in Parliament.
Elections Lead Story News Politics
The NLD won nine of 19 vacant seats at this weekend’s by-elections, largely failing to recreate the landslide victory it enjoyed at the polls in 2015.
The NLD has finally broken its silence over the controversial dismissal of its executive members in Shan State by the party’s secretary, Win Htein.
NLD spokesman Win Htein defends after the fallout from his decision to dismiss five executive members of the party in Shan State.
Win Htein, an NLD Central Executive Committee member, said he had a mandate from the party’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to deal with a planned reshuffle of party executives in Shan State.
Arakan Lead Story News Politics
The election-winning NLD will install its own MPs as the chief ministers of Burma’s 14 state and divisions, a party spokesperson has said.
Fears of a return of religious violence, favours from the ruling party and a large army presence conspired to land the USDP a standout victory in Meikhtila.
2015 Elections Arakan Lead Story News Politics
The UEC’s decision to publicly propose and then drop a plan to delay Burma’s general election has prompted criticism from major political parties.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
The firebrand monk says the NLD are “full of themselves” and unlikely to win the vote. In response, an NLD spokesman says Wirathu should “go to hell”.
Lead Story News Peace Process Suu Kyi
NLD central executive committee member says Aung San Suu Kyi advised KNU’s Maj. Htoo Htoo Lay at a meeting in her home in Rangoon on Saturday.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
NLD will contest 1,132 of the total possible 1,171 seats in the upper and lower houses, as well as in state and division assemblies.
Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi
Speaking to DVB by telephone on Wednesday, NLD Central Executive Committee member Win Htein said, “Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to China in December, that’s all I can say, so far.”
