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The Union National Democracy Party (UNDP) was a political party in
Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
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History

The UNDP was formed on 16 December 1988 by
Aung Gyi Brigadier General Aung Gyi ( my, အောင်ကြီး ; 16 February 1919 – 25 October 2012) was a Burmese military officer and politician. He was a cofounder of the National League for Democracy and served as president of the party. E ...
after he left the
National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanm ...
, of which he had previously been the chairman.1992: AUSTCARE Report on Burma Refugees
Australians Care For Refugees The party contested 247 of the 485 seats in the 1990 general elections,Robert H Taylor (2009) ''The State in Myanmar'', NUS Press but received only 1.5% of the vote, the sixth-highest vote share, winning one seat –
U Aung Thein U or u, is the twenty-first and sixth-to-last letter and fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''u'' (pro ...
in
Ywangan Ywangan Township ( my, ရွာငံမြို့နယ်) is a township located within Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar. It is also part of the Danu Self-Administered Zone The Danu Self-Administered Zone ( my, ဓနု ကိုယ ...
. The party was banned by the military government on 18 March 1992.1990 multi-party democracy general elections
Democratic Voice of Burma


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