၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၈ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမယ့္ အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲမွာ NLD က မဲဆႏၵနယ္ အမ်ားစုမွာ ၀င္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ပါမယ္

ဒီေန႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္က အိမ္မွာ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၈ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမယ့္ အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲမွာ NLD က မဲဆႏၵနယ္ အမ်ားစုမွာ ၀င္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ပါမယ္။
ဗဟိုအလုပ္ အမႈေဆာင္ အစည္းအေ၀း လည္း ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး အဓိကထား ေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ NLD လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ဖို႔ ဆိုရင္ ဘြဲ႕ရ၊ ပညာတတ္ျဖစ္ရံု သက္သက္မဟုတ္ပဲ ျပည္သူကို အက်ိဳးျပဳႏိုင္တဲ့ သူျဖစ္ဖို႔လိုပါတယ္။ NLD နဲ႔ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ လက္တြဲခဲ့ သူျဖစ္ႏုိင္ သလို၊ အခုမွ ၀င္လာတဲ့သူ
လည္းျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ အဓိက အေနန႔ဲ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအျမင္ရိွျပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီ စံႏႈန္းေတြ ေသခ်ာ သိျမင္သူျဖစ္ရပါမယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနနဲ႔ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မွာ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ၿပီး အႏိုင္ရရွိ ခဲ့တဲ့ ေကာ့မွဴးမဲဆႏၵနယ္မွ ၀င္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
A press conference held in Naypyidaw on 11th July 2015
The below is a direct quotation of remarks given in English by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference on 11th July:
‘This is to announce officially that the NLD will be contesting the elections that will be held on the 8th November. At the moment our main concern is that the voter lists should be correct, and that we should have enough time to make the necessary corrections. As you will have heard, there have been many errors in the voter lists. If there is an error it means that the voter concerned will not be able to cast his or her vote on the day of the elections. So this is a grave concern to us, and we would like our people, the media, and all interested parties, to take part in trying to correct the voter lists as quickly as possible.
I think many of you will be asking what we feel about the fact that section 59f of the constitution has not been amended, which is to say that I would be debarred from the Presidency. The NLD has considered this matter very seriously, and we have a plan which we believe would be acceptable to our people and to those who vote for the party. But we will not yet talk about this plan in public, because it’s a little too early. But of course we are not going into the elections without having an idea of how we intend to handle this problem.
(Responding to question about ‘how big a blow’ the rejection of constitutional amendments within parliament was to the NLD) It’s not a blow at all. It’s something that we had expected. After all, here are only 45 of us in a parliament of over 600, so we didn’t expect to able to amend the constitution in one go. It’s not a blow at all, because the people are with us. And what has happened in the legislature has in factraised the interest of the people in this issue. That’s a very positive sign.
(Responding to question of whether it was a difficult decision to decide to contest the election) No, not particularly difficult. We are worried about the voter lists and the fact that there are so many errors. But we had always decided that unless there were circumstances which made it absolutely impossible for us to contest the elections, we would contest the elections. This is the way forward within the framework of the law, because we do believe in the rule of law.’
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Other key announcements (not direct quotations- these remarks were given mainly in Burmese)
-Daw Aung San Suu Kyi confirmed that she would run again in her present constituency of Kawhmu, in Yangon Division.
-DASSK said that the NLD would likely not contest in a small number of constituencies, noting that it was not certain that elections would be held in some areas on the border.
-DASSK confirmed that the NLD’s policy manifesto would be announced at the start of the campaign period (note: the campaign period begins 60 days ahead of the elections).
-DASSK noted that the NLD would work towards national reconciliation as its highest priority.
-DASSK said that NLD parliamentary candidates would be selected along similar lines to the 2012 by-elections, with qualifications being the most important factor, and priority then being given to women candidates, younger candidates, and ethnic minority candidates.
-DASSK noted that the draft voter lists that had been published had been found to have error rates between 30-80% rates.