Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD legalised
The country’s election commission authorises the party’s registration. Next year, it will be able to run candidates in by-elections. For the Nobel Prize laureate, it will be a chance to win a seat. A fighting peacock gazing at a white star will be the NLD’s new symbol.
Yangon (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Burmese authorities have allowed Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) to re-register, clearing the way for the main opposition party to rejoin mainstream politics. The move is expected to see the Nobel Prize laureate stand for a seat in parliament in one of 40 by-elections early next year in both houses of parliament.
The decision to admit the main pro-democracy opposition party, winner of the 1990 election with 85 per cent of the vote but never recognised by the ruling military dictatorship, is the latest move in a series of reformist steps taken by the government. Although formally in the hands of civilians, it is very close to the military leadership.
The junta stripped the NLD of its status as a legal political party last year after it chose to boycott the November 2010 election, saying the election rules and the constitution adopted in May 2008 during the Cyclone Nargis emergency were unfair.
A brief announcement on Tuesday said that the country’s election commission had approved the NLD’s application to re-register as a political party.
Suu Kyi has said she will take part in upcoming by-elections, although the authorities have not set any date.
On Monday, her party said it had chosen a fighting peacock gazing at a white star as its new symbol, replacing its trademark bamboo hat, which was used by a breakaway group that participated in the 2010 election.
The image, which is similar to the party's flag (pictured) and will be its official insignia at the ballot box, is a symbol of the country's struggle for change, said Win Htein, a senior NLD member. "In our new seal, the white star represents the revolution. It was used many years ago as revolutionary symbol”.
The decision to admit the main pro-democracy opposition party, winner of the 1990 election with 85 per cent of the vote but never recognised by the ruling military dictatorship, is the latest move in a series of reformist steps taken by the government. Although formally in the hands of civilians, it is very close to the military leadership.
The junta stripped the NLD of its status as a legal political party last year after it chose to boycott the November 2010 election, saying the election rules and the constitution adopted in May 2008 during the Cyclone Nargis emergency were unfair.
A brief announcement on Tuesday said that the country’s election commission had approved the NLD’s application to re-register as a political party.
Suu Kyi has said she will take part in upcoming by-elections, although the authorities have not set any date.
On Monday, her party said it had chosen a fighting peacock gazing at a white star as its new symbol, replacing its trademark bamboo hat, which was used by a breakaway group that participated in the 2010 election.
The image, which is similar to the party's flag (pictured) and will be its official insignia at the ballot box, is a symbol of the country's struggle for change, said Win Htein, a senior NLD member. "In our new seal, the white star represents the revolution. It was used many years ago as revolutionary symbol”.
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