Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to register. The NLD will be "legal"
The Central Committee has voted "unanimously" to return within the country's political framework. The party should participate in the upcoming election and the Nobel Laureate win a seat in Parliament. No shortage of criticism: the current Kachin party calls for peace in ethnic minority areas, while others believe that the presence of the NLD will only be "cosmetic".
Yangon (AsiaNews) - The National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma's main opposition party, led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has confirmed it register to allow it to once again fully participate in he political life of the nation and run for seats in Parliament. The decision came after a three-hour discussion in the party headquarters in Yangon. Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone with the "Lady", confirming U.S. support in the struggle for democratic reforms in the country. And, surprisingly, the announcement of a future - historic - visit of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scheduled in December. For years, the U.S. imposed harsh economic and trade sanctions on the former Burmese regime.
In an official statement the NLD Central Committee announced it has decided "unanimously" to proceed with registration and participate in the next election, to complete the formation of the Parliament in which about 40 seats still remain vacant. Burmese political experts report that the choice of Aung San Suu Kyi and the party provides the Nobel Laureate a chance to occupy a seat in Parliament, and perhaps aspire to public office, or an active role within the "civil" government Myanmar.
However, critical voices also emerge: several times in recent weeks, Win Tin, one of the most important leaders of the dissident movement, 19 years in prison and released in 2008, states that "it is not really a good decision to get into Parliament." Party members close to the Kachin minority is also critical: it voted for registration, but calls on the leadership to compete in elections only when peace is achieved in war-torn ethnic areas especially in the north on the border with China. Finally, others believe that the presence of the NLD in the Assembly will be only "cosmetic", to be exploited by the government, but without real benefits in the context of democratic reform in Myanmar.
The NLD boycotted the vote of November 2010, branded a "sham" by the West, as governed by rules laid down in the 2008 Constitution and Law on registration of parties, deemed "anti-democratic" and "unfair" by the leaders of ' opposition. Led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest, the National League for Democracy triumphed in the elections of 1990, never recognized by the military junta ruled the country for two decades. The November 2010 vote established the so-called "civilian" Government, but which is still close to the army leadership.
In March 2010, before the vote, with the "Lady" still under arrest, the majority of the party had decided not to sign up and boycott the polls. One of the main demands made by Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of the opposition movement, which has not yet been satisfied in full by the government, is the liberation of all political prisoners who crowd the jails. In this regard, the government had announced a few days ago a new amnesty, which has not yet been applied. In contrast, the authorities have given the green light to transfer the detainees to prisons closer to family members, among them there is also the leader of the Saffron Revolution of 2007, Monk Ashin Gambira, imprisoned in Insein Prison.
In an official statement the NLD Central Committee announced it has decided "unanimously" to proceed with registration and participate in the next election, to complete the formation of the Parliament in which about 40 seats still remain vacant. Burmese political experts report that the choice of Aung San Suu Kyi and the party provides the Nobel Laureate a chance to occupy a seat in Parliament, and perhaps aspire to public office, or an active role within the "civil" government Myanmar.
However, critical voices also emerge: several times in recent weeks, Win Tin, one of the most important leaders of the dissident movement, 19 years in prison and released in 2008, states that "it is not really a good decision to get into Parliament." Party members close to the Kachin minority is also critical: it voted for registration, but calls on the leadership to compete in elections only when peace is achieved in war-torn ethnic areas especially in the north on the border with China. Finally, others believe that the presence of the NLD in the Assembly will be only "cosmetic", to be exploited by the government, but without real benefits in the context of democratic reform in Myanmar.
The NLD boycotted the vote of November 2010, branded a "sham" by the West, as governed by rules laid down in the 2008 Constitution and Law on registration of parties, deemed "anti-democratic" and "unfair" by the leaders of ' opposition. Led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest, the National League for Democracy triumphed in the elections of 1990, never recognized by the military junta ruled the country for two decades. The November 2010 vote established the so-called "civilian" Government, but which is still close to the army leadership.
In March 2010, before the vote, with the "Lady" still under arrest, the majority of the party had decided not to sign up and boycott the polls. One of the main demands made by Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of the opposition movement, which has not yet been satisfied in full by the government, is the liberation of all political prisoners who crowd the jails. In this regard, the government had announced a few days ago a new amnesty, which has not yet been applied. In contrast, the authorities have given the green light to transfer the detainees to prisons closer to family members, among them there is also the leader of the Saffron Revolution of 2007, Monk Ashin Gambira, imprisoned in Insein Prison.
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