Kokang Democracy and Unity Party | |
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Burmese name | ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ |
Chinese name | 果敢民主团结党 |
Abbreviation | KDUP |
Chairman | Luo Xingguang |
Vice Chairman | Yan Kyin Kan [1] |
Founded | 29 April 2010 |
Headquarters | Lashio, Shan State |
Ideology | |
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw | 0 / 224 |
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw | 0 / 440 |
Party flag | |
The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma) representing the interests of the Kokang Chinese and the administration in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone. [2]
The party contested four constituencies in the 1990 general elections, receiving 0.07% of the vote and failing to win a seat. [3] The KDUP was re-established in 2010. In the 2010 elections, it contested constituencies in Lashio, Kunlong and Hsenwi Townships in Shan State, but again failed to win a seat. [4] [3]
The KDUP contested one House of Nationalities seat in the 2012 by-elections, Shan State's Constituency No. 3, fielding party's chairman, Luo Xingguang, who was believed to have ties to drug traffickers Lo Hsing Han and Liu Guoxi. [5] [6] In the 2015 elections the party succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Representatives and one seat in the Shan State Hluttaw.
Kokang Democracy and Unity Party | |
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Burmese name | ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ |
Chinese name | 果敢民主团结党 |
Abbreviation | KDUP |
Chairman | Luo Xingguang |
Vice Chairman | Yan Kyin Kan [1] |
Founded | 29 April 2010 |
Headquarters | Lashio, Shan State |
Ideology | |
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw | 0 / 224 |
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw | 0 / 440 |
Party flag | |
The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma) representing the interests of the Kokang Chinese and the administration in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone. [2]
The party contested four constituencies in the 1990 general elections, receiving 0.07% of the vote and failing to win a seat. [3] The KDUP was re-established in 2010. In the 2010 elections, it contested constituencies in Lashio, Kunlong and Hsenwi Townships in Shan State, but again failed to win a seat. [4] [3]
The KDUP contested one House of Nationalities seat in the 2012 by-elections, Shan State's Constituency No. 3, fielding party's chairman, Luo Xingguang, who was believed to have ties to drug traffickers Lo Hsing Han and Liu Guoxi. [5] [6] In the 2015 elections the party succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Representatives and one seat in the Shan State Hluttaw.