67. Are there provisions for conflict of interests for candidates and/or elected officials?

Myanmar

Myanmar

Answer
Yes
Source

"Section 11

After being elected, a Hluttaw representative shall have no right to subsist as a Hluttaw representative on involvement of any of the following:

(a) converting into a member of a religious order permanently;

(b) being adjudged to be of unsound mind as provided for in the relevant law;

(c) being declared an insolvent by the relevant court;

(d) being sentenced to imprisonment under any existing law, after being elected as a Hluttaw representative;

(e) being designated to cease to be a citizen under the relevant law;

(f) being designated by the authority concerned as a person born of either parent or both parents who are not citizens at the time of his birth;

(g) being decided by the Election Tribunal to be a person under allegiance to a foreign government or person under the influence of a foreign government or a subject of a foreign government or a citizen of a foreign country;

(h) being decided by the Election Tribunal to be a person entitled to the rights and privileges of a subject of a foreign government or a citizen of a foreign country

(i) being permitted by the Commission to resign as a Hluttaw representative;

(j) being adjudged by the relevant court as having credible evidence that the person contacts with an organization declared as an unlawful association under any existing law, an organization and persons designated by the State to have committed terrorist acts, the insurgent organization or its members in revolt with arms against the State;

(k) being decided by the Election Tribunal to be a person or a member of an organization as provided for in Sub-sections (h), (i) or (l) of Section 10;

(l) being informed by the respective head of the Civil Services Body to be a civil services personnel as provided for in Sub-section (k) of Section 10;"

Source: Section 11, Hluttaws Election Law, 2010

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