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Myanmar ruling party to compete for all vacant seats in by-election

Xinhua, October 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Aung San Suu Kyi-led Myanmar ruling party -- the National League for Democracy (NLD) will compete for all vacant parliamentary seats in the April by-election next year, said party secretary U Nyan Win Wednesday.

The by-election is to be held on April 1, 2017 to fill 19 vacant parliamentary seats as some of which were left after parliament members were appointed as government cabinet ministers, while other vacancies were left as some constituencies failed to hold the polling in the last general election in 2015.

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 Union Election Commission (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.

In the Nov. 8 election, the NLD won an absolute majority of 255 or 79 percent with the House of Representatives, 135 or 80 percent with the House of Nationalities and 475 or 75.7 percent with the Region or State Parliament as well as 21 ethnic representatives to the Region or State Parliaments.

The former ruling party -- the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won 30 seats with the House of Representatives, 12 with the House of Nationalities, 74 with the Region or State Parliament as well as 2 ethnic representatives to the Region or State Parliaments.

The USDP had also announced earlier to compete for all vacant seats in the by-elections. Enditem