Myanmar candidate hits the campaign trail — on foot FEATURE 10/14/2010

Myanmar candidate hits the campaign trail — on foot

FEATURE

10/14/2010
Campaigning is under way for Myanmar’s first election in 20 years and opposition candidate Moe Tun has been busy pounding the pavements and knocking on doors to drum up support.

With no car to navigate the streets of Yangon, the 43-year-old teacher has been hitting the campaign trail on foot ahead of the Nov. 7 poll.

“As I have no money, I cannot do much work. But I walk. I reach every ward. I do the work myself by walking,” said Moe Tun, one of 47 candidates for the Democratic Party (Myanmar), led by veteran politician Thu Wai and three daughters of late prime ministers.

But he does not think of himself as a potential lawmaker.

“I consider it as continuing unfinished political work by my friends,” he told AFP while waiting for his colleagues near the Htaukkyant war cemetery in the north of the former capital.

A vehicle decorated with a campaign poster played the party’s music over a loudspeaker while members in T-shirts bearing their symbol of a dancing peacock and stars handed out pamphlets..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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