CNI News
24 Jan 2023
What would happen next if elections could not be held as planned is the hotly debated question in the political circle.
The failure to hold elections in accordance with the 2008 constitution will make it null and void, Spokesperson Naing Than Shwe of the Mon Unity Party told the CNI.
He said, "If elections could not be held in accordance with the 2008 constitution, it might be abolished by staging a coup and a new constitution might be drafted. We cannot predict exactly what would happen next but the 2008 constitution would become null and void."
Snr Gen casts his vote
The SAC chairman promised to hold elections in the upcoming August and to transfer power to the winning party.
The SAC would hold the elections without fail as it was the only means for it to overcome the political crisis, Political Observer U Than Soe Naing told the CNI.
U Than Soe Naing told the CNI, "I reject the hypothesis that elections could not be held because the SAC will hold the elections without fail as it is the only way out for them from the crisis. However, the elections will not be free and fair. The elections will not be held properly. They will be fraudulent elections. So, I have never thought that elections could not be held. Even if elections should not be held, they would try to cling to power."
If elections could not be held, the 2008 constitution would become null and void, Kachin Politician U Kwan Gaung Aung Kham told the CNI.
He said, "Everything depends on the next move of the military. The state of emergency will end on 1st February in accordance with the 2008 constitution. Whether elections will be held or not depends only on the military. If they do not hold elections, the constitution will become null and void. Whether elections are held or not, there will be problems because they are the consequences of the coup.
A security checkpoint at an entrance to Nay Pyi Taw
Acting President Duwa Lashi La of the NUG said on 11th October, 2022 that the SAC assumed the 2023 elections would be the way out of the crisis for them and vowed to disrupt them without fail.
On the other hand, the SAC has been compiling voters' lists for the elections.
As a result, some immigration offices faced arson attacks.
