Election 2015

Election Features
27 August 2023
NUG pledges cooperation to bring justice for crimes against Rohingya, other minorities  
Rohingya, Muslim men check their names on final voter list displayed at Dar Baing Internally Displaced Parsons (IDPs) camp near Sittwe of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 03 November 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
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04 November 2015
Rohingya ‘excluded’ from Myanmar election contest
Politicians with ties to Myanmar's Muslim ethnic Rohingya have accused the government of...
USDP campaigning in Mandalay on October 23, 2015. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima 
News
04 November 2015
Myanmar’s election fundamentally flawed – HRW
Myanmar’s parliamentary election slated for November 8, 2015, is fundamentally flawed,...
Myanmar president Thein Sein (C) followed by Myanmar military commender in chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (C-L), gestures as he arrives Sittwe airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 03 November 2015. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
News
04 November 2015
Myanmar president warns of Arab Spring-style...
A video posted on the Facebook page of Myanmar's president, raising the spectre of...
Media monitoring by the EU EOM is conducted in accordance with an established methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Photo: European Union Election Observation Mission 
News
03 November 2015
More than 10,500 observers to monitor election
The Union Election Commission (UEC) has issued accreditation cards to 470 diplomats from...
Thiri Mingala Hill (Taunggwe) Pagoda in Loikaw, Kayah State. Photo: sarthit medhasith Suksumret/panoramio
News
03 November 2015
Ethnic parties in Christian areas fear they are...
Ethnic parties in Myanmar's four Christian dominated regions are worried that a lack of...
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R), chairperson of National League for Democracy (NLD) party, delivers a speech as Tin Oo, patron of NLD, sits during her election campaign rally in Yangon, Myanmar, 1 November 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
02 November 2015
Be wary of fraud, Myanmar’s Suu Kyi tells huge...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told tens of thousands of supporters Sunday to...
News
02 November 2015
UN chief concerned by continuous exercise of hate...
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed ...
 Toe Toe Aung, Mon State Minister for Civil Development at the USDP office in Mawlamyaing, Mon State. (PHOTO : Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now) 
News
02 November 2015
“Joining a Ma Ba Tha event is a USDP member’s...
Dr. Toe Toe Aung is the Mon State Minister for Civil Development for the ruling Union...
News
02 November 2015
Huge crowds gather for NLD rally
Tens of thousands of supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered in...
Myanmar armed forces march during a military parade to mark the country's 67th Union Day ceremony in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 12 February 2014. Photo: EPA
News
01 November 2015
Can soldiers vote in Myanmar elections without...
At the end of a day’s training in a vast military compound in the suburbs of Yangon,...
Phyu Phyu Nyunt, NUP candidate for the Yangon Region Parliament. (PHOTO:- Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now) 
Election News
01 November 2015
“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP...
U Naing Ngan Lin, member of Myanmar parliament and candidate of NLD party, at Yangon General Hospital on 29 October 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
News
01 November 2015
NLD candidates attacked by men with machetes
An opposition candidate for the NLD suffered serious injuries after he and three others...

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