Kokang Democracy and Unity Party

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The Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (Burmese: ကိုးကန့် ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် ညီညွတ်ရေးပါတီ; 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.[1]

History

The party contested four constituencies in the 1990 general elections, receiving 0.07% of the vote and failing to win a seat.[2] 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.[3][2]

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.[4][5] 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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