No room for dissent.

POLITICAL participation; ACTIVISTS; ACTIVISM

For international observers, Suu Kyi has fallen from her pedestal, but within Myanmar there is currently no major campaign to defend the Rohingya, let alone a leftwing party to stand against Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) when the country next goes to the polls in November 2020. To stand in the 2015 election, the NLD had to agree to abide by a military-era constitution, which guarantees the army 25 per cent of parliamentary seats along with other concessions, and bars Suu Kyi from becoming president. Thinzar Shunlei Yi says activists in Yangon have also considered establishing a political party or organization to "check and balance" the NLD as they head towards the 2020 elections, but they feel they're not ready yet. [Extracted from the article]

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