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Tale of Five Elections

Pyawbwe

A motorcycle taxi driver campaigns in Mandalay for the National League for Democracy before it was overthrown in a coup. (Frontier)

In Pyawbwe, the fight for the rural vote threatens to get ugly

Heated campaign rallies have sparked tensions in Pyawbwe Township, a key battleground between the ruling National League for Democracy and opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party.

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A Pyawbwe local wears a face-mask that commemorates National League for Democracy chair Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 75th birthday earlier this year. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

NLD shrugs off ‘childish’ fraud allegations from a defeated USDP in Pyawbwe

After a tense race, the USDP is refusing to accept the loss of its Mandalay Region stronghold of Pyawbwe Township, which some have attributed to a demise in Buddhist nationalism.

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A motorcycle sits beneath signboards promoting the National League for Democracy in the southern Mandalay Region town of Pyawbwe – considered a stronghold of the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party – in late October. (Supplied)

Rumours of unrest keep Pyawbwe voters on edge

In the Union Solidarity and Development Party stronghold of Pyawbwe Township, in southern Mandalay Region, there is growing anxiety the election will be marred by communal unrest.

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Children play on a dusty lane in Kaw Taw Wa village, Pyawbwe Township, on August 26. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)
Children play on a dusty lane in Kyu Taw Wa village, Pyawbwe Township, on August 26. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

The lion and the peacock gird for battle in Pyawbwe

The election in the southern Mandalay Region township is a fierce contest between the ruling NLD and military-backed USDP, but local enthusiasm for the vote is muted – and a lack of voter education isn’t helping.

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Swe Lei Mon

Swe Lei Mon

Swe Lei Mon is a reporter at Frontier. She began her journalism career at News Watch weekly journal in 2016, and has worked at Myanmar Business Today and the Myanmar Times.

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