Ethnic parties will form their own parliamentary committee based on four objectives—ousting the dictatorship, the annulment of the 2008 Constitution, the emergence of a federal democratic union and the freeing of all political detainees.

Candidate Sai Tun Aye, No-7 Upper House Constituency in Shan State said: “We plan to form the committee, as the country is in need of an organization which will stand in front of the public.” 

The committee has won the strongest support from the ethnic parties in Shan State led by the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) which secured the 42 seats, making them the third-largest party in the 2020 General Elections.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) formed the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) with elected candidates since February and appointed the acting union ministers.

It is not yet clear how the ethnic version of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) based on elected MPS from ethnic states would relate to the mainly NLD/Bamar committee that represents the ousted NLD government.