The Burmese Election Commission, appointed by the military junta, announced Friday the dissolution of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, led by deposed Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The director of the Electoral Commission remodeled after the coup on February 1, Thein Soe, accused this formation of “electoral fraud” during the November elections of last year, the original justification used by the Army to carry out the coup. State that removed the democratic government of Suu Kyi. In addition, Soe called on the authorities to prosecute their leaders for “treason”, reported the local media “Myanmar Now”..
The military have kept Suu Kyi under house arrest since the riot, against whom six charges are pending for crimes such as violating the Official Secrets Law, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The formation that governed the Nobel since 2015 returned to sweep the last elections in Burma and humiliated the Party of Solidarity and Development of the Union (USDP), linked to the military, which won 24 seats compared to 368 for the party of suu kyi.
The official media have been publishing daily lists of the alleged evidence presented by the Electoral Commission on the manipulation of more than 10 million votes committed by the NLD in the last elections for weeks.
Meanwhile, the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), which participated in those elections as international observers, has rejected the allegations of fraud by presenting its final report on the Burmese elections last Monday.
“We have found no evidence that the polls were rigged; on the contrary, we believe that the results are a broad representation of the will of the Burmese people,” said observer Chung Lun..
After the coup, the military junta headed by General Min Aung Hlaing promised to organize new elections after a year in power, in which the ruling formation could not participate until the coup.. During the military uprising, the military canceled the elected Parliament and arrested part of the government, including Suu Kyi,