Shan National League for Democracy
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Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
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| Tai name | ငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး |
| English name | Shan Nationalities League for Democracy |
| Burmese name | ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
| Abbreviation | SNLD |
| Chairperson | Hkun Htun Oo |
| Second Vice Chairperson | Hkam Pöng Fa aka Khin Maung Nyunt |
| General Secretary | Sai Nyunt Lwin aka Sai Nood |
| Spokesperson | Sai Leik |
| Founded | 26 October 1988 |
| Headquarters | 26B, Corner of Pyay Road and Swar Bwar Road, Ward 5, Mayangone Township, Yangon Region |
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Shan interests Federalism Self-determination |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Slogan | "Without Equality We Cannot Have Peace, Without Peace We Cannot Build Democracy." |
| Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw |
3 / 224
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| Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw |
14 / 440
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| Seats in the Shan State Hluttaw |
28 / 151
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| Seats in the Kachin State Hluttaw |
1 / 53
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The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (Burmese: ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်; [ʃáɴ táɪɴjɪ́ɴðámjá dìmòkəɹèsì ʔəpʰwḛdʑoʊʔ]; Shan: ငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး; abbreviated as SNLD, also Tiger Head) is a political party in Myanmar (Burma). The party was established on 26 October 1988, and campaigns for the interests of the Shan people. The SNLD became the largest Shan party in the Assembly of the Union following the 2015 general election. The party is a federal party having local branches in most townships in Shan State and few in other states and regions such as Kayah, Kachin, and Mandalay.
Unlike the similarly named Shan Nationalities Democratic Party, the party prefers a federal system with 8 states as the original principle based on the Federal Principles of 1961, rather than the status quo of 7 states and 7 regions.
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy was founded by Hkun Htun Oo, the nephew of Sao Kya Seng, the last Saopha of the Hsipaw State. The party was formally registered in 1988. In the 1990 general election, the party won the second highest number of seats (23 seats out of 58 constituencies), which was unrecognized by the ruling military junta.
From 1993 and 1996, members of the party attended the National Convention (NC) and Dialogue, where several opposition groups met with the military junta to negotiate peace treaties. At there, SNLD demands "striving for national reconciliation in order to build a genuine democratic union". However, the Working Committee of the National Convention Convening Commission ignores SNLD's demands as well as other democratic forces. When the National Convention re-convene again in 2004, SNLD denied to send representatives joining the Convention. In February 2005, the party's leaders were arrested under accused charges on forming Shan State Advisory Expert Group, and were given long prison sentences.
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