Seven Arakan National Party (ANP) central executive committee members held a press conference on Sunday in Rangoon to highlight their dissatisfaction with recent actions of their party.
ANP Lower House lawmaker Ba Shein, who was not at the press conference but spoke out in support of it, attributed the group’s internal divisions to emotional volatility within the leadership, and urged them to instead engage in dialogue to overcome differences.
He cited the conference’s purpose as “to unveil to the public the reality of the ANP.”
After winning a majority of seats in the Arakan State parliament in the 2015 general election, in January 2016 the party declared that it would not join any coalition with the country’s overall winner, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Rather, the ANP stated that it would stand as an opposition party unless it was allowed to form its own state government. (Courtesy of Irrawaddy)
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