Despite a walkout by disgruntled members of smaller parties who complained of discrimination, the selection of 16 political party representatives for preparing the nationwide ceasefire agreement dialogue was completed on November 21.
The representatives will take part in the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee, a 48-member body established as part of the ceasefire process, in accordance with the agreement signed on October 15 by the government and eight ethnic armed groups.
The government has already nominated 16 members of the tripartite group, and the signatory armed groups have selected another 16. The third group of 16 members was to be selected by the 91 parties that contested the November 8 election.
The Union Peacemaking Work Committee, led by U Aung Min, convened the parties on November 21 at the Yangon Region parliament building to make the selection.
Representatives of 86 parties that answered the invitation wrangled, however, over the mechanics of the selection process.
U Aung Min proposed that the two major parties elected to hluttaw last week – the National League for Democracy and the Union Solidarity and Development Party – should nominate two each, with one each from the Arakan National Party, the Shan National League for Democracy, the Federal Democratic Alliance, the Nationalities Brotherhood Federation and the United Nationalities Alliance. The remaining seven should then be elected by a vote.
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