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Posts Tagged ‘Electioneering’
Week 30: 2010 Election Watch (28 September – 4 October)
Developments
- The SPDC Election Commission rejected the Difference and Peace Party’s transcript for its TV and radio campaign message. It also censored the campaign messages of the All Mon Region Democracy Party, the Chin National Party, and the Shan Nationals Democratic Party [...]
Burmese junta sets election date of Nov. 7
Myanmar’s ruling military junta announced Friday that the country’s first elections in two decades will be held Nov. 7, finally setting a date for polls that critics have dismissed as a sham designed to cement military rule. [...]
| |USDP offers cash for votes in Puta-O
In an age old practice the Burmese military junta backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is distributing money to people to vote during the forthcoming election, while campaigning in Kachin State, Northern Burma[...]
| |PM’s party enticing Muslims
Burma’s minority Muslim population will be issued with identification cards and allowed to freely travel the country if they make the right vote in elections, the party headed by Burma’s prime minster has reportedly said[...]
| |Junta undertakes census for elections
In a surprise move the Burmese junta has ordered a census, which is underway in Kachin State’s capital Myitkyina, northern Burma from yesterday for the countrywide elections this year, said local people.[...]
| |Village headmen fed up with junta-backed parties’ campaign
Village headmen from a township in Shan State East complained that they are too tired of the junta’s political parties campaigning process because they are not ‘canvassing’ for votes, just ‘forcing’ to get votes, according to sources from the Thai-Burma border.[...]
| |Junta donates to churches in Hakha
The Burmese military junta with an eye on the forthcoming general elections has begun to woo the Christian community.
Col. Hung Ngai, Tactical Commander and Chairman of the Chin State Peace and Development Council, donated Kyat 2 lakhs on May 16 to Bethel Church in Hakha town, Chin state western Burma.[...]
| |USDP Handing Out ‘Incentives’ in Shan State
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is canvassing for votes and passing out “incentives” in townships and villages in Northern Shan State, local sources said on Wednesday.[...]
| |PM’s party forcibly recruiting members in Shan State
The newly formed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led by Prime Minister Thein Sein is conducting a recruiting campaign in Shan State North and Shan State East using power of its parent organization known as the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), sources from the border said.[...]
| |USDP begins election campaign
The newly-formed political party led by Burmese prime minister Thein Sein has begun campaigning across Burma ahead of elections this year. [...]
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