29 September 2010

Burmese elections will be free and fair – official!

Burmese foreign minister keeps straight face when declaring elections will be free and fair!


Well according to Burma's foreign minister U Nyan Win who has declared that the junta is committed to a "free and fair'' vote in the upcoming national election on November 7; one which will be "a critical phase of its (Burma’s) political transformation process.''

In a speech to the UN General Assembly he said that more than 3,000 candidates from 37 parties would take part in the vote for 1,171 parliamentary seats.

"Such a large participation made it crystal clear that the elections become virtually inclusive,'' the minister said. "With its ample experiences and lessons learned in holding multiparty general elections in the past history, Burma is confident in its ability to conduct the elections in an orderly manner.

"Whatever the challenges facing us, we are committed to do our best for the successful holding of the free and fair general elections for the best interest of the country and its people.''

Well there you go. I bet you’re all convinced by U Nyan Win’s reassuring words… I know I am! I daresay some fellow leftists will continue to view the junta as a good anti imperialistic, anti American bunch, while, as usual, solipsist libertarians will not give a damn… Hiho

When I say reassured, I mean reassured that the man is talking bollocks. There are four words missing from this election: AUNG, SAN, SUU and KYI.

As for experience of multiparty elections, the vermin in charge of that blighted country have experience of ignoring any election they find inconvenient (to wit a 1990 landslide for Aung San Suu Kyi)

Come 8 November I can predict that the Union Solidarity and Development Party will be major winners. That this party is headed by Thein Sein, the current Prime Minister and thus beloved of the junta is a mere coincidence

5 comments:

Sean Jeating said...

Ah, now I see why the allmighty blogging community failed.
Wrong slogan. Had the slogan not been 'Free Burma', but 'Free Myanmar', certainly Aung San Suu Kyi would be elected President of a country in which milk and honey were flowing.
[sarcasm off]

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yep. I shall not bet against your prediction, Jams.

jams o donnell said...

Ach Snoopy I am not sure you are way off!

I wish I were totally wrong Snoopy

Anonymous said...

There is no way this election will be fair considering the conditions in Burma right now. The real nature of this election is described here: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/havel41/English

jams o donnell said...

Thanks for the link anonymous. Please note that any statement here of the elections being free or fair are meant to be ironic, not literal