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Myanmar's ruling party nominates 910 candidates to contest general election

Xinhua, August 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has so far nominated 910 candidates to contest the upcoming general election scheduled for Nov. 8, according to a release of the Union Election Commission Thursday.

Of the candidates, 258 will contest the seats of the House of Representatives (Lower House), 134 for the House of Nationalities (Upper House), 501 for the Region or State Parliament and 17 for the Region or State Parliament of National Races.

Of the USDP's candidates, party chairman U Shwe Mann, who is currently speaker of the parliament, will compete in Phyu township constituency for the seat of the House of Representatives, while the party's vice chairman U Htay Oo will run in Hinthada township constituency in Ayeyawaddy region.

Other party leadership such as Dr. Sai Mauk Kham, who is current Vice President, will run in Lashio township constituency in Shan state.

USDP's U Kyaw Zin Hein will compete in Kawhmu township constituency in Yangon region against Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD), for the seat of the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, the opposition NLD has announced feeding 1,133 candidates to contest the November general election.

A total of 89 political parties have been registered with the Union Election Commission and the number of qualified parties is yet to be announced.

The commission has designated a total of 1,171 constituencies across the country for the vote at four levels of parliament representatives with 330 constituencies set for election of the House of Representatives (Lower House), 168 constituencies for the House of Nationalities (Upper House), 644 constituencies for Region or State Parliament and 29 constituencies for Region or State Parliaments for National Races.

The 2015 general election is to produce parliamentary representatives to the next term of the parliament which will form a government of new term in early 2016. Endi