CNI News
13 May 2025
If elections are held in Myanmar, what reforms the government that emerges after the elections will prioritize for the country and its people, which military and political observers are watching.
The government that emerges after the election must prioritize maintaining peace and stability in the country and must also form a national unity government, the Arakan Front Party (AFP) chairman Dr. Aye Maung told CNI News.
“The first thing that the new parliament and government should do after the election is to establish political stability. The 2008 Constitution already stipulates that our country will have a multi-party democracy. Therefore, after the election, we need a unity of parties and a goal of how to develop the country and achieve political stability. So we have to negotiate and have expectations on how to overcome the current crisis. About 4,000 people lost their lives in the Mandalay earthquake. How will we raise the necessary funds for reconstruction? We need a national unity government, which will negotiate the development of the country in Hluttaw and work together for the state and its citizens in the next five years. Only when armed conflict ends can political stability be achieved, and only when such political stability is achieved can development take place." he said.
The SAC Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
The election would be held in December 2025 and had received international support, and he called on the public in order to hold the election peacefully, the SAC information team leader, General Zaw Min Tun, told the media on May 10, 2025, after returning from a trip to Russia. During the trip to Russia, SAC Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with international leaders and explained that a multi-party democratic general election would be held by the end of 2025, he said.
U Sai Htay Aung, chairman of the Tai Leng (Shanni) Nationalities Development Party (TNDP), told CNI News that the post-election government should prioritize education and health sectors for the people.
“The election will be held without fail. Once the election is over, the three branches of power will be held by three people instead of one person, and when there will be check and balance, efforts can be made pretty well for the sake of the country. The government that will come to power after the election should prioritize education and health sectors. I believe that the country is in this situation at this time because we lack education and reason. We need political stability, but we'll have to upgrade education and health sectors without the stability. The education sector needs to change its curricula. Currently, most of the curriculums are about personality cult. Love for country is disappearing. They are leaning to personality cult. If every citizen had patriotism, we wouldn't face such problems." he said.
Armed groups are trying to overthrow the Myanmar Tatmadaw and the SAC, and have announced that they will sabotage the upcoming elections that will be held by the SAC.
Major General Zaw Min Tun said he wanted the people to firmly oppose terrorism, which was the opposite of democracy.
The armed conflicts that are taking place across the country need to cease and bring about peace and stability in order to hold free and fair elections, the SAC Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said in a message sent on the 77th Chin National Day, which fell on February 20, 2025, that
