YANGON: Myanmar's junta-stacked election commission announced on Tuesday (Mar 28) that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law, state media said. The NLD, which Suu Kyi led to crushing
YANGON: Myanmar's junta-stacked election commission announced on Tuesday that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law, state media said.
The NLD, which Suu Kyi led to crushing victories over military-backed parties in elections in 2015 and 2020, will be"automatically cancelled as a political party" from Wednesday, according to the MRTV broadcaster. The military justified its February 2021 power grab with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in 2020 elections, ending a 10-year democratic experiment and plunging the country into turmoil.
In January, the junta gave political parties two months to re-register under a strict new electoral law written by the military ahead of fresh polls it has promised to hold.Last month, the junta announced a six-month extension of a two-year state of emergency and postponed elections it had promised to hold by August because it did not control enough of the country for a vote to take place.
More than 3,100 people have been killed and over 20,000 arrested since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.
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