YANGON, April 27 (Bernama) -- The Union Election Commission (UEC) of
Myanmar will amend the electoral laws and bylaws in an effort to ensure
free, fair and transparent general elections in 2015, China's Xinhua
news agency said quoting official media's report on Saturday.
Addressing a roundtable meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday, UEC Chairman U
Tin Aye admitted that there are still weak points in voter
registration, pre-election voting, political campaigns and dissemination
of electoral knowledge to voters, and also mentioned the huge financial
gap among political parties, said the New Light of Myanmar.
The meeting was attended by officials from UEC, 21 political parties
and civil society organisations as well as United Nations
representatives.
Earlier this month, UEC held discussions with 56 political parties,
which were granted registration, on holding free and fair multi-party
general elections in 2015 on various aspects.
In the 2012 by-elections, the first held in President U Thein Sein's
new government era, the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung
San Suu Kyi, won overwhelmingly by sweeping a total of 43 parliamentary
seats out of 45 vacant seats.
Of the 45 vacant parliamentary seats, 37 seats were for House of
Representatives , while six were for House of Nationalities and two were
for Region or State parliament.
There has been 1,154 elected representatives in the parliament produced
through the last general election held in line with the 2008
constitution in November 2010, of which 325 with the House of
Representatives, 168 with the House of Nationalities and 661 with the
region or state parliament.
In addition to the elected parliament representatives, 288 or 25
percent more are non-elected military representatives at the three
levels directly nominated.
source: Bernama
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