CNI News
5 Mar 2024
The National League for Democracy Central Working Committee led by U Aung Kyi Nyunt is illegal and has no mandate to exercise any authority, NLD Central Committee Member U Toe Lwin wrote on his Facebook page on 3rd March.
The expatriate seven-member NLD CWC led by U Aung Kyi Nyunt and Daw May Win Myint expelled NLD Central Executive Committee Member U Phyo Min Thein and Central Committee Members Daw Sandar Min, U Toe Lwin and U Win Myint Aung from the party in a statement issued on 3rd March.
In connection with the statement, CC member U Toe Lwin responded that the so-called NLD CWC led by U Aung Kyi Nyunt has no mandate to exercise any authority.
U Toe Lwin said, "As almost all CEC members including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have been imprisoned, the CEC has not been able to make any decisions. Issuing statements under the name of the NLD and the CEC is completely illegal and the CEC including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said that they would not be responsible for any decisions on 8th November, 2021 through the lawyers Daw Min Min Soe and U Khin Maung Zaw of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Win Myint. So, the so-called NLD CWC led by U Aung Kyi Nyunt, which has stolen and misused the official Facebook page of the NLD, has no mandate to exercise any authority."
The NLD CWC statement expelling four party officials including U Phyo Min Thein and U Toe Lwin.
He added that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said through her lawyers that the formation of so-called NLD CWC was completely illegal on 8th November, 2021 and it was known to all veteran NLD members that it was illegal to use the name of illegal NLD CWC and issue statements under the name of the NLD by controlling the official Facebook page of the NLD.
U Toe Lwin said, "The so-called NLD CWC was formed outside the country and its members live in Mae Sot in Thailand and the US. Under the constitution of the NLD, people outside the country are not recognized as party members legally. It can be said that they are no longer party members. In the more than 30 year history of the party, those who have left the country (simply put it, they fled the country out of fear) are not eligible to carry out the responsibilities of the party. If they carry out the responsibilities, they are illegal.
He said that he is a CC member of the NLD and a member of the most important body of the party, the Central Disciplinary Committee. Therefore, he is well-versed in the party constitution-1988, rules and regulations issued after re-registration of the party at the end of 2011, political ideologies and processes.
The NLD flag.
He continued to say that, under the constitution of the NLD after re-registeration in 2011, there was no such thing as the CWC. Under the rules and regulations of the central disciplinary committee, the seven members of the CWC and Daw May Win Myint were no longer party members spontaneously.
At present, CEC members Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Win Myint and Dr Zaw Myint Maung have been imprisoned and other CEC members including Dr Myo Nyunt, U Han Thar Myint, U Thein Oo, Dr Tin Myo Win, U Aung Soe and Daw Khin Htay Kywe continue to live in the country.
Daw May Win Myint and U Aung Kyi Nyunt fled the country and formed the NLD CWC.
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