The NMSP is an ethnic armed organisation and will not have any candidates in the forthcoming election.

Nai Aye Mon, a member of the NMSP’s central executive committee (CEC) said: “From our Mon ethnic people, there are two Mon political parties. So, for Mon people, each of their individual ballots should not be given to other parties. Rather, the ballots should be cast to Mon parties. I am not saying to vote for this Mon party, or that Mon party, but to vote for one of the Mon parties that you like.”

The statement was made at a press conference on 9 July at the NMSP liaison office in the town of Three Pagodas Pass on the Burmese side of the Thai-Burma border, following a meeting between the NMSP and other associated Mon organisations.

People attending the meeting included: Nai Hong Sar, the vice-chairman of the NMSP; Nai Aye Mon, in-charge of the NMSP’s foreign affair department; the commander and officials of Battallion 5 of the NMSP’s armed wing, the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA); members of the NMSP based in Three Pagodas Pass; members of the Mon Youth Progressive Organization (MYPO); and staff members from NMSP’s education and health departments.

Nai Aye Mon said: "The NMSP would like these two parties to become one party. But they haven’t become united as one yet. Although in the past Mon monks and Mon people worked hard to get the two parties to become one, they did not succeed,”

Last June, at the Mon Literature Talk held at Thanbyuzayat Town Nai Hong Sar said, in response to questions from the audience, that people should vote for the representatives from two Mon political parties but carefully consider their choice and make it based on the candidates qualifications.

He said: “Voters must consider the facts of each individual representative, of what he/she did in the past and is doing in the present, and what he/she has done for our people and what he/she has sacrificed for the people."

The Mon National Party (MNP) and the All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) will contest not just in Mon State but in certain constituencies in Karen State and Tanintharyi Region.

The MNP competed in the 1990 elections as the Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF), they then changed their name to the Mon Democracy Party (MDP) in 2012 before finally changing their name to the MNP in 2014.

The MNP did not compete in the 2010 elections, but the AMDP, which was founded by various Mon ethnic leaders competed in the 2010 elections

The Union Election Commission has announced that the elections will be held on 8 November 2015.