Opposition may stand
NZPA-Reuter Rangoon The new Burmese opposition coalition is considering entering elections sponsored by the country’s military leaders, a spokesman for one of the group’s leaders said. However, the spokesman for the former Defence Minister, General Tin 00, of the National United Front for Democracy (N.U.F.D.) said the opposition was in a dilemma because militant students opposed any collaboration with the military who seized power a week ago. “If we do not acknowledge this Government and their process, we will automatically be discounted,” Tin Go’s spokesman said. “Our position is to beat them at their own game.” Boycotting the Army elections would make the Burma Socialist Programme Party the only participant and the country "will be a one-party system again,” he said.
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