Will COVID-19 delay the election?
Earlier this month, a group of 24 opposition political parties petitioned the Union Election Commission (UEC) to delay the election. The UEC refused. Critics of the request dismissed the effort as a ploy to buy more time to campaign and upset the sta
NLD to change candidates for 2020 election
The National League for Democracy (NLD) will cut more than half its anticipated candidates for the next election. Monywa Aung Shin, a party spokesperson, told the Myanmar Times that many of the current candidates do not meet the party’s standar
