The Supreme Court declared admissible the appeal by the opponent Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced in August to 18 additional months of house arrest for breach of security.
The Court has set no date for his hearing, expected in the coming month, according to Nyan Win, counsel for the Nobel Prize for peace.
With this conviction, it is likely that the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) will remain confined to his house in Rangoon during the campaign and the elections scheduled next year.
Most observers believe that the decision of the Supreme Court, whatever does not change the fate of Aung San Suu Kyi and release depends entirely on the whim of the junta.
The opponent, who spent fourteen of the last twenty years in detention, challenging his sentence to eighteen months of house arrest for violating additional rules governing the conditions of his detention under house arrest and violated the law on security interior.
The Burmese court accused him of harboring her for two days and without reference to an American authorities who raided her property in Rangoon after crossing by swimming the Inya Lake.
The condemnation of the winner of the Nobel Peace has been denounced by the international community and interpreted as a strategy implemented by the Burmese junta to keep away from the 2010 elections.
In 1990, during the previous parliamentary elections, the NLD Suu Kyi had made a tsunami tidal wave election that Burmese generals never recognized.
If the opponent had still to win its case before the Supreme Court, it would qualify for elective office because of his marriage with a foreigner, Briton Michael Aris, died today.