The main Burmese opposition party has decided not to register, meaning it will be unable to contest the country's first election in two decades, it was reported today.
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Hla Thein, a delegate at today's meeting of the National League for Democracy, said its members had decided against registration.
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Registration would have been the first legal step needed to take part in the polls, which the country's ruling junta has promised to hold this year. No date has been set.
The detained National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was quoted last week by her lawyer as saying she opposed registering her party because the junta's restrictions on the vote were "unjust". She stressed that she would let party members decide.
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