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Today, the Election Commission issued Party Registration Procedures and Regulations (Decree 2010/01 and 02) for
the political parties and candidates to abide by. I just came across several new additions, which are not part of the
Political Party Registration Law (procedures are supposedly not law, but issued by the Election Commission), and
they can be as effective as laws though.
Here is the comparison:
Political Party Registration Law (SPDC) Political Party Registration Procedures (EC)
Article 12: Para 15:
The law is specific: threshold (3 constituencies) and The procedures restrict party even more: “a political
unlawful association act. party can be disbanded if they breach public tranquility
(vague again) and do not follow constitution (not enacted
yet, then, which constitution?) and existing laws (none of
the existing laws such as 2/88 and others are still intact)
Membership Criteria: One procedure is that the detailed biographical
backgrounds of each member must be submitted in full to
1) National party must recruit 1,000 members in 90 the Nay‐Pyi‐Daw (Central) commission. All the
days approval/reporting must be done at Nay‐Pyi‐Taw. Forget
2) Regional party must recruit 500 members in 90 days about small party in remote hilly region – how can they
send the list for the approval to NPT in 90 days??????
Costs and Fees:
Party registration fees: ? Not mentioned; Candidate registration fees: 500,000 k;
One candidate can use up to 10 million kyat in the campaign.
The voter who like to verify the authenticity of any candidature, one can request the EC to investigate the matter
at the fees of 1 million kyat (the public and poor constituency cannot lodge the complaint against anyone)