A member of the committee tasked with reviewing the options surrounding the implementation of a proportional representation system in Myanmar has said it will report during the next session of the hluttaw assembly.
Formed on June 14, with 38 members, the decision on the group’s deadline was made within the first meeting said U Phone Myint Aung MP, (Amyotha Hluttaw, New National Democracy Party, Yangon Region) to Mizzima after that meeting held on June 25.
“It will not be easy to introduce a PR system immediately,” said chairman of the committee, U Zaw Myint Phay MP (USDP, Mandalay Region), also speaking to Mizzima following the meeting, “what will matter is which form of PR we choose.”
The chairman, also a central executive member of the USDP, added that the aim of a PR system would be to benefit ethnic minorities and so there would be a focus on ethnic minority groups.
The National Brotherhood Federation, which represents a coalition of ethnic minority parties and recently helped to form the Federal Union Party, strongly rejected any change in the electoral system in a statement released on June 16.
