by-election 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy elected Members of Parliament took their seats in parliament following a week’s delay due to dispute over the parliamentary admission oath in the constitution. U Nyan Win spoke person for NLD said that their turnaround decision to take the oath and join the parliament is based on two reasons. Speaking…

Mahn Johny, the National League for Democracy’s, victorious by-election candidate in Myaungmya Township, Irrawaddy Region, says he will use his parliamentary seat to work for the people and he wants to see an end to Burma’s civil wars. His advisor, Sakhin Zaw Lin, told Karen News that Mahn Johny wants to help to try to stop the civil wars and…

A large jubilant crowd of chanting people crowded around the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) headquarters in Rangoon to celebrate what they claim is a landslide victory for ‘the country’s rightful leader – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’. The NLD say the result means Aung San Suu Kyi can now take her seat in Burma’s parliament for the first time.…

Voters in the three villages under the Kaw Mu Township, where NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is contesting say they have had a chance to vote freely and securely. A source at the polling stations 1, 2, 3 in A Pyauk village and polling station 2 in Ma Kyi Kan village under the Kaw Mu Township told Karen News.…

Staff at the polling station 1, at Pyi Taw Tar, under the Kaw Mu Township electorate denied voters’ requests to change the waxed covered voting cards they were issued, with unwaxed cards that they could write on, according to local witnesses. A Yangon Press International journalist told Karen News about a voter, Daw Kyi Aye’s claims that it was impossible…

The National League for Democracy’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has a new security detail – 30 Karen youths from War Tin Kha village, near Kaw Mu Township, have volunteered to provide security for her in the electorate Mrs Suu Kyi is contesting in tomorrow’s parliamentary by-election. A by-election observer told Karen News. “The 30 youths will guard Daw Aung…

National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi warned that tomorrow’s Burma’s parliamentary by-elections are not free or fair. Mrs Suu Kyi claimed opposition candidates had been harassed, their campaign posters vandalised and intimidated. Mrs Suu Kyi alleged government officials were involved. In a televised broadcast last week the country’s president, Thein Sein admitted to “unnecessary errors’ involving ballot…

The Union Solidarity and Development Party are accused of local residents of explaining to voters how to ‘incorrectly’ vote in Kaw Mu Town where the National League for Democracy’s, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will contest tomorrow’s parliamentary by-election. A local woman, (who requested her name not be used) accused the USDP of giving them information that would disqualify their…