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Posts Tagged ‘Union Solidarity and Development Party’
PFOB Chair Decries Absurd Election Complaint Fees and Calls on the Military and its Proxy Party to Protect Aung San Suu Kyi
It is absurdly difficult to make a complaint about the recent sham elections in Burma orchestrated by the military and their party USDP. To make a single complaint costs about 5 times your annual income. And if the complaint is determined to be unfounded, you can be fined about 15 times your annual salary. “This is absurd” said PFOB Chair the Honourable Larry Bagnell M.P. Yukon [...]
| |Week 35: 2010 Election Watch (2-8 November)
Developments
Widespread evidence of electoral fraud, irregularities, threats, harassment, and lack of independent monitoring characterized Election Day and the days leading up to it [...]
| |First election results emerge
More than 70 percent of the first 57 parliamentarians elected in Burma’s controversial elections yesterday belong to the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) – the junta proxy widely tipped to sweep the polls.
Fifty-five of the candidates won their seats automatically because they stood uncontested [...]
| |Week 34: 2010 Election Watch (26 October – 1 November)
Developments
NLD members distributed election boycott leaflets in Rangoon’s Insein and Mingaladon Townships. Riot police in Rangoon’s North Okkalapa Township surrounded “no-vote” campaigners as they attempted to distribute election boycott leaflets.
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Junta Win May Already be Secured
Burma’s first election in two decades is still four days away, but the military junta may have already secured a majority of the seats in parliament due to the efforts of its proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), to obtain advance votes.
USDP sources said that key junta members and USDP party leaders have assured Than Shwe that the USDP has already locked-up at least 30 percent of the seats in parliament through advance voting. And according to USDP data, the party is also guaranteed to win in 52 constituencies where there is no other party contesting [...]
| |Burma: A Violent Past to a Brutal Future
This report looks at the history of the junta-backed social organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), and its transformation to the political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). It documents how the USDA’s legacy of violence, manipulation, domination, and repression has since been transferred to and continued by the USDP in their election campaigning [...]
| |Key Stakeholders Explore the Reality on the Ground of Burma’s Military Elections
Speakers representing central stakeholders in Burma spoke today about how the elections next Sunday will not improve the situation on the ground in Burma. They spoke about the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party’s (USDP) manipulation of the polls, the National League for Democracy’s ongoing efforts for genuine democracy, escalating attacks against ethnic nationalities and the resistance of students and youths against the upcoming elections [...]
| |Timely Report Documents the Transformation of Burma’s Military Regime’s Paramilitary Organization to Political Party
The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) released a report today entitled, “Burma: A Violent Past to a Brutal Future; The Transformation of a Paramilitary Organization into a Political Party.” The report looks at the history of the junta-backed social organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), and its transformation to the political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).
The report’s release comes in the final week before the first elections in Burma in 20 years, polls that have been widely criticized as being not free or fair [...]
| |Week 33: 2010 Election Watch (19-25 October)
Developments
- SPDC authorities in Rangoon arrested at least two Buddhist monks who were handing out pamphlets protesting the election near the Shwedagon pagoda.
- People put up anti-election leaflets and posters in Myitkyina, Kachin State, and in Kyainnseikyi Township, Karen State [...]
Week 32: 2010 Election Watch (12-18 October)
Developments
- SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that no foreign journalists or international monitors would be allowed to observe the upcoming elections.
- SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that 3,071 candidates, including 82 independent candidates, will contest the elections [...]
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