One more vacant parliamentary seat to be filled in by-election in Myanmar
Xinhua, October 24, 2016 Adjust font size:
Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) on Monday announced that one more vacant parliamentary seat is to be filled in next April's by-election, bringing the total number of vacant seats to 19.
The vacant state parliament seat goes to Nyaung Shwe constituency in Shan state.
Of the total of 19 parliamentary seats, nine are with the House of Representatives (Lower House), three with the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and seven with the state parliaments.
According to the time table of the UEC, the date for overseas voters to cast vote in advance is initially set for between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15 and date for submission of names of candidates is between Nov. 28 and Dec. 7.
Campaign period is scheduled for 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. 8 2015, when some constituencies failed to hold the polling.
Other parliamentary seats were left empty after parliament members were appointed to be government cabinet ministers. Endit