Key Myanmar Pro-Democracy Parties Refuse to Meet With Regime's Election Body

THE IRRAWADDY 

20 May 2021

An anti-regime protest in Yangon on Feb.14. / The Irrawaddy

While many of Myanmar’s key pro-democracy political parties have rejected an invitation from the regime’s election body to a meeting on Friday, others have decided to attend it, risking public outrage.

Arakan Army blames NLD, UEC for election impasse

mizzima

By Mizzima
01 January 2021 

Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office

The Arakan Army and politicians blamed Myanmar’s ruling party and electoral authorities Thursday for the failure to hold elections in Rakhine State, as analysts warned that holding a vote will be critical to keeping a fragile ceasefire going into 2021, RFA reported.

Myanmar Calls Off Polling in Rakhine, Shan Conflict Zones

THE I DIPLOMAT

Sebastian Strangio
October 19, 2020 

 The cancellations were expected, but some say the decisions were selective and benefit the ruling National League for Democracy.

On October 16, Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced the cancellation of the upcoming national elections in conflict-ridden regions of the country, including swathes of territory in Shan and Rakhine states.

Activists Denounce Myanmar Election App For ‘Inflaming’ Ethnic Tensions

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
October 01, 2020

By accepting Myanmar’s rigid official racial and religious categorizations, the EU-funded app runs the risk of entrenching sectarian divides.

A donor-funded election app designed to provide information to Myanmar voters has come under fire for its potential to inflame racism and religious nationalism ahead of elections on November 8.

The mVoter 2020 app, which was launched on September 29, was developed by the Stockholm-based organization International Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), under the EU-funded STEP Democracy program. The app was built in partnership with The Asia Foundation and Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC).

Coronavirus and security issues cast a pall over Myanmar polls

DW
30.09.2020

Political parties in Myanmar are calling for the postponement of a national election amid rising COVID-19 cases. Continued unrest in the country's northeast also threatens to keep people from voting.

Political parties in Myanmar have urged the Union Election Commission (UEC) to postpone November's election, saying the "COVID-19 restrictions will hinder their election campaigns."

But the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has decided to go ahead with its election campaign on social media.

ရခုိင္က ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္တဲ့ေဒသေတြမွာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲလုပ္ျဖစ္ မျဖစ္ တပ္သေဘာထားအေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး UEC ဆုံးျဖတ္ မည္

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
31 ဇူလိုင္၊ 2020

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာေတာ့ စစ္ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္မွာလုပ္မယ့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ တပ္မေတာ္က လံုၿခံဳမူ မရွိဘူးေၾကညာလာရင္ေတာ့၊ ေဒသတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ေနာက္ေရႊ႕ေကာင္းေရႊ႕ရလိမ့္မယ္လို႔၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ္မ ရွင္ ဥကၠဌက ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။