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Myanmar to hold parliament by-election in April

Xinhua, October 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) on Wednesday announced to hold by-election of the parliament on April 1 next year.

The by-election is to be held to fill 18 vacant seats, 9 in the House of Representatives (Lower House), 3 in the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and 6 in state parliaments.

According to the time table published by the UEC, the date for issuing forms to overseas voters to cast vote in advance will be initially set for between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15 and date for submission of names of candidates be between Nov. 28 and Dec. 7.

Campaign period will be from Jan. 30 to March 30, 2017.

Election result or names of winning parliamentarians-elect will be announced within the next four days following the by-election on April 1, 2017.

The vacant constituencies were produced when the country' general election was held in Nov. 7 2015, there were some constituencies which failed to hold the polling.

Other parliamentary seats were left empty after parliament members were appointed to be government cabinet ministers. Endit