Ethnic Parties

Ethnic Parties

The Rakhine State Government Office in Sittwe is the seat of the chief minister (Phadu Tun Aung/Myanmar Now) 
Arakan National Party says one of its MPs should be Rakhine’s next chief minister 
The ANP, which won the largest number of seats in the Rakhine State Hluttaw in November, suggested...
Published on Jan 26, 2021
Dr Zaw Myint Maung said chief ministers will most likely be from NLD (Nyan Hlaing Linn/Myanmar Now)
NLD vice chair douses hopes of ethnic party appointments to chief minister roles 
Comments to Myanmar Now raise questions about whether NLD will follow through on promise to share power with ethnic parties
Jan 23, 2021
Delegates from the NLD and SNLD seen after their meeting in Taunggyi on Friday(SNLD/Facebook)
SNLD asks for cabinet positions in national government during unity talks with NLD
The party made the request ‘because things can be done only from a position of power’
Jan 19, 2021
The NLD penned an open letter inviting ethnic parties to cooperate with them after the election. (Sai Zaw/Myanmar Now)
12 ethnic parties agree to meet NLD for talks on federal union 
The parties were among 48 invited by the ruling party to discuss the formation of a “national unity government”
Dec 16, 2020
An NLD supporter celebrates victory in front of the party’s headquarters in Yangon (Sai Zaw/Myanmar Now) 
Despite landslide victory, NLD appeals to ethnic parties to join its ‘national unity government’
Ethnic parties skeptical as NLD promises ‘not to take all the control’
Nov 13, 2020
Kachin State People's Party(KSPP) Headquarter in Myitkyina, Kachin State (KSPP Facebook Page)
‘We merged and we won’ - ethnic parties set aside differences to claw back seats from NLD
Feeling ignored by the governing NLD, ethnic parties are unifying before the upcoming election—but some alliances remain tenuous
Nov 13, 2019