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ZNC to Register as ‘Zomi Congress for Democracy’
10 July 2012: The Zomi National Congress (ZNC), a political party asked in May to change its name by Burma’s Union Election Commission, has been granted permission to register as ‘Zomi Congress for Democracy’.
The Union Election Commission gave the green light to the new name to be established as a political party on 5 July, saying it was in conformity with the rules and regulations, according to the New Light of Myanmar.
In a letter sent last Thursday to the new party, UEC said the Zomi Congress for Democracy was permitted to form a political party but it has got to make further submission of at least names of two leaders and registration application to UEC within 30 days.
Despite officially contesting and winning two seats from Tedim and Tonzang constituencies from Chin State during the 1990 Elections, ZNC was denied its recent application to register as a political party on the ground that the term ‘Zomi’ is not included in the 130-plus ‘national races’ identified by the government.
A 15-member ZCD would stand as a new political party upon completion of its registration process after dropping the term ‘national’ from its previous party’s name, ZNC, which boycotted alongside the National League for Democracy (NLD) the 2010 general elections in Burma.
Founded in 1988, ZNC was committed to restoring and establishing democratic government and federal union of Burma, with its leader Pu Chin Sian Thang, an elected MP during the 1990 elections.
http://www.chinlandguardian.com/news-2009/1828-znc-to-register-as-zomi-congress-for-democracy.html
Burmese migrant workers may soon be able to apply for temporary passports in northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai
Burmese migrant workers may soon be able to apply for temporary passports in northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai city as the Kingdom seeks to speed up the process of legalising the millions of foreigners that provide crucial support for the economy.
The new service would allow Burmese residents in northern Thailand to complete the required passport application process in Chiang Mai rather than having to travel to Bangkok, Ruchuchai Phota from Chiang Mai Province’s Employment Office says.
“The Thai cabinet at the end of last year approved this plan,” said Phota, who heads the office’s Labour Support Department . “Talks were held yesterday with concerned Burmese officials to work out the details. Continue reading “Burmese migrant workers may soon be able to apply for temporary passports in northern Thailand’s Chiang Mai”
Burma’s Union Election Commission (EC) Allows NLD Registration
Burma’s Union Election Commission (EC) has allowed an application to register as a political party filed by the National League for Democracy (NLD), landslide winners of the 1990 general election and led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The New Light of Myanmar, a state-run Burmese, reported on Tuesday that the EC had permitted the NLD’s application for registration as a political party in accordance with the commission’s rules and regulations.
အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္မွ ဦးတင္ဦး အပါအဝင္ အျခား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ (၂၁) ဦးတို႔ျဖင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထားသည့္ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ပါတီသည္ ပါတီ တည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထားခ်က္ ဥပေဒ နည္းဥပေဒမ်ားႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီ ဆီေလ်ာ္မႈ ႐ွိသျဖင့္ ယင္းအမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အား တရားဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ အတည္ျပဳ လိုက္ၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
Nyan Win, a spokesperson for the NLD, said that the party had submitted its application on Nov. 25. He said that there are two steps to register as a political party, and that the NLD has passed the initial step. The second step, he said, was the registration process itself.
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Tuesday, Nyan Win said, “According to the law, the EC inspects the backgrounds and profiles of the 21 members who are listed on a party’s application form. They also investigate whether there is any connection between the party and an illegal organization based in a foreign country.”
He said that a selected number of party members will be sent to Naypyidaw next week to oversee the second step of the party’s application process.
The NLD was dissolved by the EC on Sept. 14, 2010, by the EC for refusing to register for the 2010 general election. The EC also announced that day that the NLD would no longer be permitted take part in any form of political activity.
Assuming the registration process is completed successfully, the NLD says it will participate in the upcoming by-elections, no date for which has yet been announced. It said it will compete in all 48 available constituencies.
Despite the fact that the NLD won the country’s 1990 election by a landslide, the party was never allowed to take power by the military junta.
On Sunday, NLD leader Suu Kyi met for an hour with Khin Aung Myint, the head of the Upper House of Parliament. Nyan Win said that Khin Aung Myint previously remarked in October that he recognizes the 1990 election result.
The NLD spokesman said that Sunday’s meeting between Suu Kyi and Khin Aung Myint was an informal affair, more akin to a “chat among friends.”
The NLD also announced on Monday that it was changing its logo to that of a fighting peacock. Its previous emblem was a bamboo hat, which it successfully employed as a politicking tool when campaigning for the 1990 election.
The fighting peacock symbol is perhaps better known as the logo of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front and the All Burma Federation of Student Unions.
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