Myanmar's NLD party disbanded

Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar pro-democracy party is dissolved after it boycotted the elections scheduled for this year.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) was officially abolished at midnight Thursday after NLD refused to re-register as a political party before a May 6 deadline.

Myanmar's ruling junta leaders had announced that any existing party who failed to re-register must be disbanded.

The forthcoming election, for which no date has yet been set, will be the first such election in two decades.

NLD says the laws under which the polls will be held are unfair. The new election laws require the party to expel its detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

A NLD's spokesman has informed that the members of the disbanded party will continue operating from their headquarters in Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, is known as a symbol of democracy in Myanmar. She has spent nearly 14 of the past 20 years in detention and house arrest.

Source: PressTV.
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