Democracy Party (Myanmar)
The Democracy Party (Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီ) was a political party in Myanmar.
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History
Following the reintroduction of multi-party democracy after the 8888 Uprising, the Democracy Party was the first party to register when registration opened on 1 October 1988.[1] It contested 105 seats in the 1990 general elections.[2] It received 0.5% of the vote winning a single seat, U Tun Hlaing in the Bahan constituency in Yangon.[1]
The party was banned by the military government on 11 March 1992.[1]
References
- 1990 multi-party democracy general elections Democratic Voice of Burma
- Robert H Taylor (2009) The State in Myanmar, NUS Press
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