YANGON, March 9- The National Congress of Myanmar’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), began here Saturday with nearly 900 party representatives from across the country joining the congress, the first in 25 years.
The two-day NLD party national congress was opened with an address by its chairperson Daw Aung San Suu Kyi(Pic), who is a party representative from Yangon region to the congress, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. The party congress is attended by delegates including freshers elected from over 250 townships from different regions and states and the congress will re-elect party central committee and central executive committee (CEC) and lay down future work programmes of national reconciliation, striving for obtaining human rights and full democracy rights and building of genuine democratic state, according to the Central Commission for Holding the Party’s National Congress.
In addition, other party internal issues will also be raised for discussion and adopted at the congress, party sources said.
NLD, established in September 1988 after the previous military take-over, regained legal party registration on Jan 5, 2012 following Aung San Suu Kyi’s final release from house restriction on Nov 13, 2010, six days after the general election.
NLD’s party membership has developed to 1.2 million so far as disclosed by the sources. In the April 1, 2012 by-elections, NLD overwhelmingly won 43 out of 45 open parliamentary seats, of which 37, including Suu Kyi, with the House of
Representatives (Lower House), four with the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and two with the region or state parliament.
Aung San Suu Kyi was named chairperson of the Committee for Rule of Law and Tranquility of the House of Representatives on Aug 7, 2012.
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