YANGON - MYANMAR'S first election in two decades will be held Nov 7, the junta announced on Friday, setting the wheels in motion for a long-awaited event that critics have dismissed as a sham designed to cement military rule.
The brief announcement was carried on state TV and radio, marking the first time the junta has given a date for the country's first polls since 1990.
'Multiparty general elections for the country's parliament will be held on Sunday Nov 7,' according to the brief announcement from the Election Commission, which also called on political parties to submit their candidate lists between Aug 16 and Aug 30.
Ahead of the polls, the ruling military junta has passed numerous laws and rules criticised by detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the international community as undemocratic and unfair.
Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is boycotting the polls. It was disbanded in May because it refused to register.
The new laws effectively bar Ms Suu Kyi and other political prisoners - estimated at more than 2,000 - from taking part in the elections. -- AP
I hope that Myanmar would elect a good and wis government, but I am not insulting the current one. I just wish that Myanmar would get a better government so as to improve their economics and the situation their country is in, if not it is impossible to make any progress.
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