Kokang Democracy and Unity Party

Kokang Democracy and Unity Party
ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ
Abbreviation KDUP
Chairman Luo Xingguang
Vice-Chairman Ye Kyinkan
Founded 29 April 2010 (2010-04-29)
Headquarters Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar
Ideology Kokang nationalism
Three Principles of the People
National conservatism
Anti-communism
Political position Right-wing
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw
0 / 224
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw
1 / 440
Seats in the Shan State Hluttaw
1 / 151
Party flag

The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (Burmese: ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ; abbreviated KDUP), locally known as Lashio Long, is a political party in Myanmar (Burma), representing the interests of the Kokang Chinese and the administration in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone.[1]

History

The party contested four constituencies in the 1990 general elections, receiving 0.07% of the vote and failing to win a seat.[2] The KDUP was re-established in 2010, and in the 2010 elections, it contested constituencies in Lashio, Kunlong and Hsenwi Townships in Shan State, but again failed to win a seat.[3][2]

The KDUP contested one House of Nationalities seat in the 2012 by-elections, Shan State's Constituency № 3, fielding party's chairman, Luo Xingguang, who was believed to have ties to drug traffickers Lo Hsing Han and Liu Guoxi.[4][5] In the 2015 elections the party succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Representatives and one seat in the Shan State Hluttaw.

References

  1. ↑ "Kokang Democracy and Unity Party". Election 2010. Mizzima. 20 November 2010. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Kokang Democracy and Unity Party". 2010 Election Watch. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "All legislatures". 2010 Election Watch. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  4. ↑ "Kokang party leader kin to "King of Opium"". Shan Herald Agency. 26 October 2010. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Proxy parties galore in Shan State". Shan Herald Agency. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.