The National League for Democracy is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar. It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victory in the 2015 general election but was overthrown in a coup d'état in February 2021 following another landslide election victory in 2020.
The National Unity Party (NUP) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma). It is the successor to the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP),which ruled the country from 1962 to 1988. The party's headquarters are in Bahan Township,Yangon.
Thein Sein is a Burmese politician and retired military general who served as the 9th President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as prime minister from 2007 to 2010,and was considered by many in and outside Myanmar as a reformist leader in the post-junta government.
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy is a de-registered political party in Myanmar (Burma). The party was established on 26 October 1988,and campaigns for the interests of the Shan people. The SNLD became the largest Shan party in the Assembly of the Union following the 2015 general election. The party is a federal party having local branches in most townships in Shan State and few in other states and regions such as Kayah,Kachin,and Mandalay.
The National Democratic Force (NDF) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma). It was founded by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who disagreed with the party leadership's decision to boycott the 2010 general election.
The Union Solidarity and Development Party is an ultranationalist,pro-military political party in Myanmar. Alongside the National League for Democracy,it is one of Myanmar's two principal national parties. USDP is the successor to the former ruling military junta's mass organisation,the Union Solidarity and Development Association,and serves as the electoral proxy of the Tatmadaw (military),which operates as a state within a state. Many of its political candidates and leadership are retired generals. It supports authoritarian military leadership. USDP was founded by Prime Minister Thein Sein to contest the 2010 Myanmar general election;the party was headed by Sein until 2013. Since 2022,it has been led by Khin Yi,who was installed as a loyalist of military leader Min Aung Hlaing.
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party was a political party in Myanmar (Burma),representing the interests of the Rakhine people in Rakhine State and Yangon Region. The party contested 44 seats in the 2010 General Election,of which it won 35. The RNDP was the largest party in the Rakhine State Hluttaw,the sole State or Region Hluttaw whose largest party was not the Union Solidarity and Development Party following the 2010 election. The party was at times accused of stirring up anti-Muslim feelings.
Dr Sai Mauk Kham is a Burmese politician and physician who currently serves as a House of Representatives MP for Lashio Township constituency. He previously served as First Vice President of Myanmar from 1 July 2012 to 30 March 2016. He was elected as Second Vice President of Myanmar on 4 February 2011,defeating Aye Maung of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party and receiving 84% of the votes in the Amyotha Hluttaw.
Tin Tun Oo is a Burmese media entrepreneur who owns Swesone Media Company,with about 60 employees. The group publishes the Thuta Swesone magazine,Pyi Myanmar journal,Arrawjan magazine and Good Health journal. He is sponsor of the annual Thuta Swesone literary award.
The Union Election Commission is the national level electoral commission of Myanmar (Burma),responsible for organising and overseeing elections in Burma,as well as vetting parliamentary candidates and political parties.
Tun Shin was Attorney General of Myanmar (Burma) from 2011 to 2016. He is an attorney by profession,with an LLB degree from Yangon,as a Master of Arts degree in business law from London. He is a Christian.
General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015,with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies,excluding seats appointed by the military,to select Members of Assembly to seats in both the upper house and the lower house of the Assembly of the Union,and State and Region Hluttaws. Ethnic Affairs Ministers were also elected by their designated electorates on the same day,although only select ethnic minorities in particular states and regions were entitled to vote for them.
The Union Attorney General is the Government of Myanmar's chief legal advisor,and also appears on behalf of the Burmese government in civil and criminal cases. The current Attorney General is Thida Oo who is also serves as Union Minister for Legal Affairs.
The Office of the Attorney General of Myanmar serves as the Government of Myanmar's main legal advisory body. The Office is led by the Union Attorney General of Myanmar. The incumbent Attorney General is Dr Thida Oo,who was appointed on 2 February 2021 by Min Aung Hlaing following a military coup d'état on 1 February 2021. After the caretaker government was formed in 2021,the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.
Aye Maung is a Burmese politician and was the chairperson of the Arakan National Party,one of Myanmar's ethnic political parties. He is currently the leader of the Arakan Front Party. He is a staunch nationalist known for his hardline stance against the Rohingya people,having tirelessly campaigned against the minority group and having been involved in instigating attacks against them in the communal violence in 2012.
The cabinet of Thein Sein,headed by President Thein Sein,is the first democratically elected government of Myanmar after the military government. It took office on 30 March 2011 after the 2010 Myanmar general election to 30 March 2016.
The Arakan Front Party is a political party in Myanmar seeking Arakanese self-determination and holding hardline ultranationalist,anti-Rohingya and anti-Islam stances. It was founded on 11 October 2018 by Dr. Aye Maung,former chairman of the Arakan National Party,and his colleagues,including his son Tin Maung Win.
Thein Soe is a former major general in the Myanmar Armed Forces and the incumbent chairman of the Union Election Commission.
Tin Tun Naing is a Burmese activist and politician who currently serves as the acting union minister for the Ministry of Planning,Finance and Industry,Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and Ministry of Commerce. He is also a member of House of Representatives for Seikkyi Kanaungto Township and of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.
The United Democratic Party was a Burmese political party. The party was registered in May 2010,and dissolved by Myanmar's Union Election Commission in October 2020,for possessing illegal funds. UDP was also known as the Rose Party for the rose featured in its party logo. The party had courted enduring scrutiny for its controversial ties to Michael Kyaw Myint,a convicted businessman with ties to the United Wa State Party.
