Shan Nationalities League for Democracy

Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်
Tai nameငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး
Burmese nameရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်
AbbreviationSNLD
ChairpersonSai Nyunt Lwin
1st Vice-ChairpersonHkam Pöng Fa (Khin Maung Nyunt)
2nd Vice-ChairpersonSai Hla Pe
General SecretarySai Leik
Founded26 October 1988 (1988-10-26)
HeadquartersPyay Road, Ward 5, Mayangone Township, Yangon Region
IdeologyShan interests
Federalism
Self-determination
Social democracy[1]
Political positionCentre-left[1]
Regional affiliationNetwork of Social Democracy in Asia[2]
International affiliationProgressive Alliance[1]
Slogan"Without equality we cannot have peace; without peace we cannot build a democracy."
Seats in the Shan State Hluttaw
28 / 151
Seats in the Kachin State Hluttaw
1 / 53
Party flag
Website
www.snld.info

The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (Burmese: ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်; [ʃáɰ̃ táɪɰ̃jɪ́ɰ̃ðámjá dìmòkəɹèsì ʔəpʰwḛdʑoʊʔ]; Shan: ငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး; abbreviated as SNLD) is a de-registered political party in Myanmar (Burma).[3] The party was established on 26 October 1988, and campaigns for the interests of the Shan people.[4] The SNLD became the largest Shan party in the Assembly of the Union following the 2015 general election.[5] The party is a federal party having local branches in most townships in Shan State and few in other states and regions such as Kayah, Kachin, and Mandalay.

Unlike other Shan political parties, the party prefers a federal system with eight states or eight units to have equal political rights in upper house as the original principle based on the Federal Principles of 1961, rather than the status quo of seven states and seven regions.[6]

  1. ^ a b c "SOCDEM Asia: The Philippines, Nepal and Myanmar". Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. ^ "About".
  3. ^ "Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD)". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Shan Nationalities League for Democary". SNLD. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference IrrawaddyS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Myint, Sithu Aung. "Sai Ai Pao, Chairman of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 31 December 2015.

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