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Junta choosing candidates popular among people for ensuing elections
Wed 05 Sep 2007,
Chan Mon, IMNA
Desperate to post a victory in the ensuing general elections and legitimize military rule in Burma the junta has subtly begun to choose people as its candidates who are well-known and respected by local people.
The junta has chosen seven people in each township from different ministries, senior officers, members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), Maternal and Child Welfare Association (MCWA), and Myanmar Women's Affair Federation (MWAF), according to a government officer.
"The government is selecting well-know persons who are respected and will be accepted by the people. The selected people will participate in the elections to become people's representative," he told IMNA.
Currently the military regime has launched a campaign for people to for vote it even as it detains opposition leaders and protesters leading the demonstrations against the fuel price hike.
The junta is also training some top township USDA leaders for organizing special campaigns. The training also includes assigning the USDA to lead government employees in the regime's campaign.
"They told to us to vote for them for they are providing electric meter boxes and connection for electric supply," a government employee in Karen State told IMNA.
The military regime is offering electricity supply at cheap rates to USDA members and government employees while normal people continue to pay a high charge of about 600,000 Kyat for power supply in Karen State and Mon State.
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