Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
Shan Nationalities League for Democracy ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် | |
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| Tai name | ငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး |
| Burmese name | ရှမ်းတိုင်းရင်းသားများ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ် |
| Abbreviation | SNLD |
| Chairperson | Sai Nyunt Lwin |
| 1st Vice-Chairperson | Hkam Pöng Fa (Khin Maung Nyunt) |
| 2nd Vice-Chairperson | Sai Hla Pe |
| General Secretary | Sai Leik |
| Founded | 26 October 1988 |
| Headquarters | Pyay Road, Ward 5, Mayangone Township, Yangon Region |
| Ideology | Shan interests Federalism Self-determination Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Regional affiliation | Network of Social Democracy in Asia |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| Slogan | "Without equality we cannot have peace; without peace we cannot build a democracy." |
| 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; [ʃáɰ̃ táɪɰ̃jɪ́ɰ̃ðámjá dìmòkəɹèsì ʔəpʰwḛdʑoʊʔ]; Shan: ငဝ်ႈငုၼ်းတီႇမူဝ်ႇၶရေႇၸီႇၸိူဝ်ႉၶိူဝ်းတႆး; abbreviated as SNLD) is a de-registered 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 other Shan political parties, the party prefers a federal system with eight states or eight units to have equal political rights in upper house as the original principle based on the Federal Principles of 1961, rather than the status quo of seven states and seven regions.