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Myanmar Junta Imposes New Restrictions on Political Parties

by The Irrawaddy
August 30, 2022
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Myanmar Junta Imposes New Restrictions on Political Parties

Junta-appointed UNIOn Election Commission chairman U Thein Soe in February 2020. 

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Myanmar’s regime has introduced further restrictions on political parties after it barred them from speaking with international organizations or foreigners without permission from the junta’s electoral body.

On August 11, the junta’s Union Election Commission (UEC) issued a notice requiring political parties to seek its approval before meeting foreign organizations and individuals. Last week it required foreign organizations to report to the regime’s foreign ministry through their embassies if they are to meet a political party in Myanmar.

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The UEC said it will act based on the response of the foreign ministry. Such a restriction is unprecedented in the history of Myanmar’s electoral bodies.

In its August 11 notice, the UEC accused foreign embassies, international NGOs and affiliated domestic organizations of having intervened in the 2020 general election which the regime said was marred by massive electoral fraud.

Citing Articles 407(c) and 408 of the military-drafted 2008 Constitution, and Article 6(f) of the Political Parties Registration Law, the UEC has warned that any parties failing to follow its August 11 instruction face dissolution.

The articles say a party will have its registration revoked “if it directly or indirectly receives and expends financial, material and other assistance from a foreign government, a religious association, other association or a person from a foreign country”.

More restrictions are expected in the Political Parties Registration Law which the regime has been amending as it prepares for an election next year.

Proportional representation (PR) will be introduced, replacing the first-past-the-post system under which the National League for Democracy (NLD) secured landslides in the 2015 and 2020 general elections. PR will supposedly make sure there is no landslide by a single party.

The NLD won more than 71 percent of the popular vote, more than enough to form a government alone, in 2020, Myanmar’s military seized power and canceled the election results, citing alleged electoral fraud. The NLD says it does not recognize the electoral body of the junta, which seized power unfairly.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month urged the international community to reject the regime’s “sham elections” planned for next year, saying they would be neither free nor fair.

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