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This is a list of political parties in Myanmar (also known as Burma). ... List of political parties registered for the 2015 Myanmar general election
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Alongside the National League for Democracy, it is one of Myanmar's two principal national parties. [4] USDP is the successor to the former ruling military junta's mass organisation, the Union Solidarity and Development Association , and serves as the electoral proxy of the Tatmadaw (military), which operates as a state within a state .
Its members included the Burma Workers and Peasants Party, the Patriotic Alliance, the Burma Democratic Party and the Burma Trades Union Congress. [1] [2] The PDF won 19 of the 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1951–52 general elections, emerging as the main opposition to the AFPFL, which had won 199 seats.
The GCBA was formed at the 1920 conference of the Young Men's Buddhist Association following the student strike earlier in the year and Burma's exclusion from British proposals for limited self-government in Indian provinces. [1] Its leadership included Chit Hlaing, U Pu and U Kyaw Dun. [1]
In December 1950 the left-wing faction of the party broke away and formed the Burma Workers and Peasants Party. [1] The membership of the Burma Socialist Party is estimated to have dropped from around 2,000 to just 200 as a consequence of the split. [4] The party recovered and its membership was estimated of having reached 6,000 in 1956. [1]
The KNA was established in 1881, the first modern political party in the country. [1] It represented the Christian Karen and Sgaw communities, replacing the American Baptist missionaries as the main voice of the Karens to the colonial government.