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Kokang Democracy and Unity Party

Kokang Democracy and Unity Party
ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ
Abbreviation KDUP
Chairman Luo Xingguang
Vice-Chairman Ye Kyinkan
Founded 29 April 2010 (2010-04-29)
Headquarters Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar
Ideology Kokang nationalism,
Three Principles of the People,
National conservatism,
Anti-communism
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw
0 / 224
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw
1 / 440
Seats in the Shan State Hluttaw
1 / 151
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The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (Burmese: ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ; abbreviated KDUP), locally known as Lashio Long, is a political party in Myanmar (Burma), representing the interests of the Kokang Chinese and the administration in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone.

The party contested four constituencies in the 1990 general elections, receiving 0.07% of the vote and failing to win a seat. The KDUP was re-established in 2010, and in the 2010 elections, it contested constituencies in Lashio, Kunlong and Hsenwi Townships in Shan State, but again failed to win a seat.

The KDUP contested one House of Nationalities seat in the 2012 by-elections, Shan State's Constituency № 3, fielding party's chairman, Luo Xingguang, who was believed to have ties to drug traffickers Lo Hsing Han and Liu Guoxi. In the 2015 elections the party succeeded in winning a seat in the House of Representatives and one seat in the Shan State Hluttaw.


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