Myanmar junta dissolves Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party
Myanmar's junta-controlled election commission has announced that the party of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be dissolved for failing to re-register under a new electoral law, according to state television.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) party was among 40 political parties that failed to meet the ruling military's registration deadline for an election, Myawaddy TV said in an evening bulletin on Tuesday.
In January, the Myanmar's junta gave political parties two months to re-register under a strict new electoral law ahead of fresh polls it has promised to hold but which its opponents say will be neither free nor fair.
The National League for Democracy party has said it would not contest what it calls an illegitimate election.
'We absolutely do not accept that an election will be held at a time when many political leaders and political activists have been arrested and the people are being tortured by the military,' Bo Bo Oo, one of the elected lawmakers from Suu Kyi's party, said on Tuesday.
In November 2020, the NLD had won a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary elections. But less than three months later, the Myanmar army carried out a coup and jailed Aung San Suu Kyi.
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