Multiple crisis of administration and law could lead to disaster during troubled Burma elections | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Myanmar’s parliamentary election slated for November 8, 2015, is fundamentally flawed, depriving Myanmar of their right to freely elect their government, Human Rights Watch said today, the 4 November. The electoral process is undermined by systematic and structural problems including the lack of an independent election commission, ruling party dominance of state media, the reservation of…

Myanmar’s upcoming election will be the first genuinely contested poll for 25 years. With little to compare it to in modern times, questions remain over the vote and its likely consequences. Yangon (dpa) – Myanmar citizens will be voting in an election on November 8 that has widely been heralded as historic. The two main contenders…