Democratic Party for a New Society

Democratic Party for a New Society သစ်တစ်ခုလူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ
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Chairman	Aung Moe Zaw
Secretary-General	Ngwe Lin
Vice-Chairperson	Myint Naing
Founded	8 August 1988 (1988-08-08)
Headquarters	No. 251, Third Floor, Seik Kanthar St.(upper block), Kyauk Tadar Township, Yangon, Myanmar
Ideology	Democratic socialism
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance
Colours	Red, Yellow
Seats in the Amyotha Hluttaw	0 / 224
Seats in the Pyithu Hluttaw	0 / 440
Seats in the State and Regional Hluttaws	0 / 860
Website
Official website
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The Democratic Party for a New Society (Burmese: သစ်တစ်ခုလူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ; DPNS) is a minor political party in Myanmar (Burma), founded in 1988 by Moe Thee Zun, the then Secretary General of the All Burma Students League (ABSL). The main goal of the party is to build a democratic society based on the principles of equality, freedom, national reconciliation, social justice, and human rights.

History

The original organisation, the ABSL, was outlawed by the military junta government, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), and the organisation was banned from participating in the political reforms in the aftermath of the 8888 Uprising. At the time of creation, the DPNS was the largest party after the National League for Democracy (NLD), and attracted many younger students, both from high schools and universities, many of whom were members of the ABSL. Initially, the DPNS was used as the legal political wing of the ABSU, and worked with the NLD and other pro-democracy parties.