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Enlisting the Strength of Political Parties

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Union Election Commission Directive No 2/2010

Enlisting the Strength of Political Parties

Section 5: Political parties that want to assemble and give speeches at designated [public] places shall apply to the election commission in the area one week in advance.

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2008 Constitution

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2008 Constitution
Article 26/a: Civil Services personnel shall be free from party politics.

Article 121: The following persons shall not be entitled to be elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw
representatives:

(j) Civil Services personnel

Proviso: The expression shall not be applied to Civil Services personnel including the Defense Services personnel selected and appointed in the Hluttaws and organizations formed under the Constitution.


Political Parties Registration Law
Article 4: The people who want to found a party must conform with the following:

(d)Not being Civil Services personnel

 

*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Six Points in Aung San Suu Kyi's Analysis in Rejecting Party Registration

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Six Points in Aung San Suu Kyi's Analysis in Rejecting Party Registration:

1.    She doesn't accept the 2008 Constitution and upholds the  “Shwegondaing Declaration.” [The declaration, issued in April by the National League for Democracy, called for the release of all political prisoners, to hold a political dialogue, to review the Constitution and to recognize the result of the 1990 election.]
2.    She doesn't accept the junta's unjust and one-sided Political Party Registration Law, which is undemocratic.
3.    She said the NLD is neither her property nor anyone else's.
4.    She doesn't favor or accept any attempt to create factions within the party.
5.    She would like to say to the people that she is committed to democracy and will continue her struggle.
6.    She won't recognize that the NLD is abolished, even if it is dissolved by the military regime.

*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law (3/2010)

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Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law (3/2010)

Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law 14/1989 issued by the junta is repealed by this law.
—Article 91 (A)

The result of the multi-party general election [in 1990] in accord with the repealed law is invalid because the result does not conform with the [2008] Constitution
—Article 91 (B)

*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)

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Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)

A person who forms a political party must be a Burmese citizen, a foreign registration card holder, people who have been granted citizenship, or people who hold a temporary identity card. —Chapter II, Article 4 (M)


A political party will be disbanded if it can not contest an election in at least three constituencies. —Chapter III, Article 12 (A/1)


People's, Nationalities, Region and State Parliament Electoral Laws


People who hold foreign registration cards, people who have been granted citizenship, foreigners, or [Burmese] people who receive citizenship in a foreign country may not be elected. —Chapter V, Article 10 (M)

*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)

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Political Parties Registration Law (2/2010)

A political party is one that believes in a “genuine disciplined multi-party democratic system” and one which the  Election Commission allows to be created in accord with this law to implement its  activities based on their political ideology. —Chapter I, Article 2/d


*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Technical Regulations for Political Party Registration (Order 1/2010)

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Technical Regulations for Political Party Registration (Order 1/2010)

After the approval [of the Election Commission] in accord with Article 5/a of this law, a political party can register within 30 days together with a registration fee of 300,000 kyat (US $300). —Chapter II, Article 7 (B)

If a political party is dissolved, either by the party's own initiative or based on a ruling by the Election Commission, all party property must be transferred to a government department or organization, as instructed by the government. —Chapter IV, Article 20 (A)

For each candidate seeking a seat in parliament, a political party may spend 10 million kyat ($10,000) in campaign expenditures for each candidate. The money may come from either party funds or a candidate's own funds. —Chapter IV, Article 21


*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law

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Pyithu Hluttaw Electoral Law

The Election Commission will examine and announce the list of military representatives [in Parliament] submitted by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, in accord with the number as prescribed [by the Constitution].—Chapter VIII, Article 31

When the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces informs the Election Commission to replace any military representatives [in Parliament], the commission will announce the new list of representatives publicly. From the date of the announcement, the term of the replaced representatives will expire.—Chapter VIII, Article 33


*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Union Election Commission Law

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Union Election Commission Law

The duties and responsibilities of the Union Election Commission are to supervise political parties, to allow sub-commissions to supervise political parties and to direct political parties in accordance with the law.—Chapter III, Article 8/k

Political Parties Registration Law

The Union Election Commission will supervise political parties in accord with existing electoral laws, regulations, announcements, orders and directions. The commission may assign the duty of supervising political parties to sub-commissions at the state, division, district or township level.—Chapter V, Article 23

If a member of a political party submits an issue involving a party's internal affairs to the commission, it may direct the party to conform to the commission's ruling within a prescribed time.—Chapter V, Article 24/b


*English Translation by The Irrawaddy

 

Quotable

Nyan_win80"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
—Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma

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