Tensions are rising sharply between the National League for Democracy and the Arakan National Party over the appointment of a chief minister in Rakhine State.
The NLD refused to yield to demands that the next chief minister be from the ANP, which has a plurality in the state assembly but is short of an outright majority.
More than 500 ANP supporters gathered in the state capital, Sittwe, on March 23 to demand that the NLD abandon its plan to appoint as chief minister the party’s state chairman, U Nyi Pu, an ethnic Rakhine. Nyi Pu was appointed at the beginning of April.
The demonstration against the NLD’s plan for Nyi Pu, one of nine party members elected to the assembly in November, was led by the ANP’s Sittwe Township chairman, U Aung Mya Thein. (Courtesy of Frontier Myanmar)
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