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                Myanmar Officials Consider Postponing Elections

   by VOA News

   Myanmar election officials are considering whether to postpone
   parliamentary elections scheduled for next month due to recent national
   disasters.

   The election commission met Tuesday in the capital, Naypyitaw, and
   discussed the idea with several political parties, including opposition
   leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.  An NLD
   official told VOA's Burmese Service that his party was the only one
   that objected to postponing the November 8 vote.

   Dozens of people have been killed after several weeks of flash flooding
   and landslides in northern and western Myanmar.

   The NLD official says the election commission wants to gauge public
   reaction to the idea before it makes a final decision.
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