What is National League for Democracy?
The '''National League for Democracy''' is a [[Liberal democracy|liberal democratic]] [[political party]] in [[Myanmar]] (Burma). It started in September 1988, [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] is the leader. The party won a substantial parliamentary majority in the 1990 Myanmar general election. However, the ruling military junta refused to recognise the result.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mahtani|first=Shibani|date=|title=Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi|newspaper=The Washington post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/myanmar-aung-sun-suu-kyi-arrest/2021/01/31/c780ce6a-6419-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html|access-date=1 February 2021|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201182106/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/myanmar-aung-sun-suu-kyi-arrest/2021/01/31/c780ce6a-6419-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It won a landslide victory in the 2015 general election and again in 2020. It was overthrown in a [[Coup d'état|military coup d'état]] in early 2021. In January 2023, the ruling junta made a new law designed to favor the [[Union Solidarity and Development Party]] which support them. The NLD announced that it would not re-register as a political party. On 28 March 2023, the NLD was officially dissolved for failing to register, a decision which the NLD rejected as illegitimate.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Min Ye Kyaw |author2=Rebecca Ratcliffe |title=Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party dissolved |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/aung-san-suu-kyi-national-league-democracy-faces-dissolution-myanmar |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=28 March 2023 |location=[[Bangkok, Thailand]] |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429154516/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/aung-san-suu-kyi-national-league-democracy-faces-dissolution-myanmar |url-status=live }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:P