The Arakan League for Democracy ( my, ရခိုင်ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်;

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ALD) is a political party active in

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(Burma).

History

The ALD was founded on 27 September 1989, in

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, and it was registered with the election commission on 2 October 1989. It contested 25 seats in the 1990 general elections,Robert H Taylor (2009) ''The State in Myanmar'', NUS Press receiving the majority of the vote at the Rakhine State. Nationally it received 1.2% of the vote, winning 11 seats, making it the third-largest party. However, the ALD was banned by the

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on 6 March 1992.1990 multi-party democracy general elections
Democratic Voice of Burma On 6 April 2012, the ALD was allowed to be re-established as a political party by the

Union Election Commission The Union Election Commission ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကော်မရှင်, abbreviated UEC) is the national level electoral commission of Myanmar (Burma), responsible for organising an ...

, as its application complied with the law and rules of the election commission. In November, members of the ALD claimed that they had been threatened by local authorities with the abolition of the party, due to an alleged recruitment membership fraud.Authorities threaten to abolish Arakanese party
Narinjara.com, 28 November 2012 On 17 June 2013, The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) and the Arakan League for Democracy signed an agreement to merge under the name

Arakan National Party The Arakan National Party ( my, ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ; abbreviated ANP), is a political party in Myanmar (Burma), representing the interests of the Rakhine people in Rakhine State and Yangon Region. The party ...

(ANP). With the formation of the new party, the Arakan League for Democracy was officially dissolved on 6 March 2014. On 8 January 2017, former leaders of the ALD announced that they were splitting from the ANP and were re-registering with the Union Election Commission for the 2020 elections, citing internal issues and RNDP dominance in the ANP as the reasons for the split. As of 5 October 2017, five members of parliament — four

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members and one

Amyotha Hluttaw The Amyotha Hluttaw ( my, အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်, ; House of Nationalities) is the ''de jure'' upper house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 224 members, of ...

member — have resigned from the Arakan National Party and joined the re-registered Arakan League for Democracy.

References

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