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Tale of Five Elections

2020 Election

National League for Democracy supporters ride in trucks during a campaign rally in Nay Pyi Taw on October 21. (Thet Aung | AFP)
2020 Election, News Feed, News

Holding the NLD to account: The money behind a winning election campaign

The National League for Democracy’s re-election was helped by generous cash and in-kind contributions, but loose campaign finance rules kept much of this support off the books.
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2020 Election, News Feed, News

Holding the NLD to account: The money behind a winning election campaign

The National League for Democracy’s re-election was helped by generous cash and in-kind contributions, but loose campaign finance rules kept much of this support off the books.
BY &

  

Highlights

A Tale of Five Elections

We’re following the election through five townships across the country, capturing events and local voices through the campaign, voting and declaration of winners.

select a location on the map to see the latest updates

Opinion
Election Insider
Dawbon Township residents check their details on voter lists on July 25. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

A litany of errors

The Union Election Commission and the government departments it partners with must urgently address flaws in voter lists that threaten the credibility of the election.
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Illustration by Jared Downing | Frontier

Democracy without the dividend

It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.
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A Kachin woman attends a National League for Democracy rally in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on October 2, 2015 ahead of the general election that year. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.
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