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U Hla Win was disqualified mid-campaign while running for a Yangon regional parliament seat for the Democratic Party for a New Society. He is part of a slew of late disqualifications made on the basis of a discriminatory legal framework for determining citizenship in Myanmar. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

End of the race: Disqualified candidates the latest victims of harsh citizenship rules

A number of candidates have been disqualified from the November 8 election late into their campaigns, for reasons that lay bare the contest’s discriminatory citizenship.

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