PEACE Info (November 9, 2020) − NLD wins nearly all seats in Kayin − NLD wins nearly all constituencies of Kachin State − Kachin party leader wins state parliament seat − Ethnic party pares down NLD seats in Mon State − NLD Leads in Mon State but With Some Losses to Local Mon Party − Ethnic party dominate polls in Myanmar’s Rakhine State − Ta’ang National Party Claims ‘Likely’ Victory in Three Northern Shan State Townships − Local Ethnic Party Beats Ruling NLD in Rakhine State in General Election − US Embassy Congratulates Myanmar Voters on Democratic ‘Milestone’ − CSOs demand action against human rights violators in warring areas − Methamphetamine seized in Shan State − �ရ���က�က�ပ���စ�င���ကည���လ�လ�သ��တ�ရ�� အ�မင�စ�စည��တင��ပခ�က� − ရန�က�န�တ��င��မ�� ရခ��င�န��ကရင��ရ�ရ� ဝန��က���နရ� မ��ပ�ခ�င��မရသ� အမ���အ�ပ��ရ�� − ရ�မ���ပည�နယ�ရ�� မ�ဆ��နယ� ၁၄ �နရ�တ�င� NLD အ���င�ရဟ�ဆ�� − �ပည�သ��လ�တ��တ���နရ�အတ�က� ရ�မ���ပည�နယ�ရ�� � မ �� � ၁၂ �မ ���တ�င� SNLD အ���င�ရ − တအ�င��ပ�တ� �မ ���နယ� သ�ံ�ခ�တ�င� အသ�စ��ရ�န − ဟ��ခ��မ�� မ�ဆ��နယ� တစ��နရ� NLD လက�လ�တ�လ��က�ရ − ရခ��င�တ�င� ANP ပ�တ�က ၁၅ �နရ� အ���င�ရ�န − ကယ���ပည�နယ�တ�င� NLD �နရ� ၂၀ ���င�၊ ၁၄ �နရ���ံ�န�မ�� − ကယ��န�� ကခ�င��ပည�နယ�မ�� NLD အမ���စ�အ���င�ရ − ပလက�ဝတ�င�လည�� NLD အ���င�ရ − ကရင��ပည�နယ� သံ�တ�င��က�� မ�ဆ��နယ� အမ�တ�- ၁ တ�င� KPP �ပန�အ���င�ရ − အမ����သ��လ�တ��တ��ဥက�� မန��ဝင��ခ��င�သန�� �မဝတ��မ ��� မ�ဆ��နယ�တ�င� မ�အ�ပတ�အသတ�အ���င�ရ − မ�န�ည���တ��ရ�ပ�တ� မ�န��ပည�နယ�တ�င� လ�တ��တ���နရ� ၂၅ ရ�ခ��င���န��န��ပ��အ���င�ရ�န − က��ယ�ပ��င�အ�ပ�ခ��ပ�ခ�င��ရ�ဒသမ���က မ�ရရ��မ�အ��ခအ�နမ��� − �ရ���က�က�ပ���ပစ�မ�က���လ�န�သ� �က��မရ�င�အဖ���ခ��ဝင�မ���အပ�အဝင� ၁၅ ဦ� အ�ရ�ယ�ထ�� − �မန�မ���ရ���က�က�ပ�� �က��မ��တ�� �ပဿန��တ� မရ��ခ��ဟ� �စ�င���ကည���ရ�အဖ����တ� သ�ံ�သပ� − ကန�၊ အ��ယ�န�� UK ၂၀၂ဝ �မန�မ���ရ���က�က�ပ��က�� ခ���က��� --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 of 33 NLD wins nearly all seats in Kayin Tint Zaw Tun | 9 NOV 2020 Except for Hpapun and Thandaung townships, nearly all the NLD candidates won in Kayin State in this election, the team told The Myanmar Times. Incumbent state chief minister Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint from the NLD party defeated her rivals with 3063 votes for in Constituency 1 of Hpa-an township, the state election sub- commission announced. “As far as I know, all candidates in Hpapun were defeated,” said U Thant Zin Aung, Myawady township state hluttaw MP. In the 2015 general election, NLD also lost all the seats in Hpapun. NLD lost one state hluttaw seat in Thandaung but I’ve heard NLD won in all the rest places. We won 100 percent in Myawady, U Thant Zin Aung said. In Thandaung, the Kayin People’s Party is strong, that is why NLD lost a seat and our party previously also lost this seat in 2015, said U Thant Zin Aung. Ballot counting is still ongoing and the exact number of votes is still unknown. NLD party officials have said that the party is sweeping up seats in Kayah, Kachin and Nay Pyi Taw. - ITranslated https://www.mmtimes.com/news/nld-wins-nearly-all-seats-kayin.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NLD wins nearly all constituencies of Kachin State Kyaw Ko Ko | 9 NOV 2020 Supporters of the National League for Democracy party cheer for the party’s victory in Hmawbi and Taikkgyi townships in Yangon on November 9. Photo: Mar Naw/The Myanmar Times The National League for Democracy party has won nearly all constituencies of Kachin State in the 2020 general election, said its party members. All of the government ministers including the current Kachin Chief Minister U Khet Aung won, although the election results of some constituencies are still not yet known, said U Khin Maung Chin, head of NLD office in Hpakant. Page 2 of 33 "Some of the townships are still counting the ballots and the results are not known. About 90pc of counting is completed. Although we lost at one or two polling stations, we are winning if we compare with the ratio of the entire township," he said. Although the Union Election Commission has yet to make official announcements regarding the result, NLD has won in some constituencies of Kachin State where it previously lost in the 2015 election, said U Khin Maung Chin. "NLD won even in some places where it lost in the 2015 election. It lost in Injangyang in 2015 but the party has won this constituency in this election. For some townships, NLD has won all the seats such as in Myitkyina, Mohnyin and Bhamaw districts. The results of some places are not known but the potential in these places are good," he said. The Kachin State's People Party won one seat for Pyithu Hluttaw and three seats for State Hluttaw, said U Aung Kham, vice-chair (1) of the KSPP. There are a total of 68 empty seats in Kachin State- 36 seats in State Hluttaw, 18 in Pyithu Hluttaw, 12 in Amyotha Hluttaw and one each for Bamar and Shan ethic affairs ministers. - Translated https://www.mmtimes.com/news/nld-wins-nearly-all-constituencies-kachin-state.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kachin party leader wins state parliament seat Thompson ChauJohn LiuKyaw Soe Htet | 9 NOV 2020 The leader of the ethnic Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP) won a seat in the Kachin state parliament, a senior party official said, but candidates of the ruling National League for Democracy appear headed for victory in other constituencies. Manam Tu Jar, the chairperson of the KSPP won in Injangyang township constituency for the state parliament, according to party vice chair Daw Doi Bu. "Yes he won but I don't know exactly by how many votes,” she said. “I have no information yet about how our candidates perform in other areas.” However, sources said most NLD candidates appeared headed for victory in other constituencies and would likely to continue to dominate representations in the union and states parliaments in Kachin. The KSPP is a merger of three different Kachin political parties, the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State, the Kachin State Democracy Party and the Kachin Democratic Party. The KSPP competed in 12 seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House), 18 in the Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) 36 seats in the parliament, and two ministerial positions- Bamar Ethnic Affairs and Shan Ethnic Affairs during the November 8 polls. Page 3 of 33 The KSPP aimed at making up for the dismal performance of the ethnic parties in Kachin during the 2015 polls, when they won only four seats of out of the 36 up for grabs in the state parliament, while the NLD won 26 seats. https://www.mmtimes.com/news/kachin-party-leader-wins-state-parliament-seat.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethnic party pares down NLD seats in Mon State Phoe Wa | 9 NOV 2020 A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Yangon on November 8. Photo: EPA-EFE The number of seats won by the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) in Mon State dropped to 34 after losing some seats to ethnic Mon Unity Party. The election commission has yet to release the official results of the polls but NLD and the ethnic Mon Unity Party (MUP) officials both confirmed the results. Ngwe Myint, an NLD state party official in Mon, said his party took only 34 out of the 45 seats up for grabs in the whole state. "Yes, we can say NLD won in 34 seats," he told The Myanmar Times, but admitted they lost in seven constituencies, which they used to control during the 2015 elections, to the MUP. "As the Mon parties merged, it became stronger and but we became overconfident and a little bit careless on those constituencies,” he said. The NLD won all seats in five townships in Mawlamyine, but the MUP won six seats for State Hluttaw and five seats for Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. In 2015, the NLD won 41 of the 45 seats, while the two other ethnic parties the All Mon Region Democracy Party and the Mon National Party won only four seats. But in 2018, the two parties merged to become the Mon Unity Party and it has cut on the traditional bailiwicks of the NLD. Nai Layi Ta Ma, MUP secretary, said the results were not as high as they have expected, although higher than what the two parties achieved separately in the 2015 polls. "According to the list, Mon won 11 seats,” Nai Layi Ta Ma said. “I am happy to win more than before, but we did not win as much as expected." Page 4 of 33 The main Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) did not win a single seat in Mon State in the just concluded electoral exercise. https://www.mmtimes.com/news/ethnic-party-pares-down-nld-seats-mon-state.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NLD Leads in Mon State but With Some Losses to Local Mon Party By Nyein Nyein | 9 November 2020 NLD candidates lead the election results in Mon State, securing more than 30 out of a total 45 parliamentary seats, party candidates and the head of the NLD’s Mon State campaign said on Monday afternoon.