SAC changes the electoral law to the form it wants

CNI News

14 June 2025

The SAC will continue to change the electoral law until it is the form they want for the elections to be held in December 2025, U Myo Kyaw of the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) told CNI News. 

The SAC chairman has told the people of Myanmar and the international community that the election will be held in December 2025. 

U Myo Kyaw said that holding such an election is just because the SAC wants the international community.to recognize the SAC's legitimacy.

“The Election Commission is formed by people they like. They issue regulations. They issue a law on party registration. But they have changed that law many times during their current rule. They have changed it until it is the way they want it. In other words, they are very unethical to loosen or tighten the law until they can have the upper hand. They only think about how they can have the upperhand and how they can have an exit. They don't look at the face of the country or the face of the people. They will hold elections because they want the legitimacy recognized by the international community." he said.

The Union Election Commission (UEC) told CNI News that elections will be held in 267 townships in Myanmar, and that the elections will be held in phases. 

It is reported that elections will be held in all regions and states in accordance with the priority plan except for the areas where there are restrictions due to geographical conditions,

While the SAC Chairman was meeting with political parties

In addition, the UEC said that the elections will be held under two systems: the first past the post (FPTP) system which was previously used and the proportional representation (PR) system.

Details will be announced once the relevant Hluttaw election laws and regulations are enacted, according to the UEC. 

It is known that SAC officials and the Election Commission previously met with political parties to discuss the law, but later there have been no such meetings.

Therefore, before the election law and regulations are announced, political parties should be invited and given a brief explanation, Sai Htay Aung, chairman of the Tai Leng (Shanni) Nationalities Development Party (TNDP), told CNI News.

“I heard that the election law and regulations are ready. In the past, the UEC used to invite political parties to meet and discuss. If they are about to issue the law, they should invite political parties and roughly explain the law to the parties. As they have said they will hold a dignified election, I don’t think it will be so bad. Ethnic issues are very important in political processes. I believe that political issues can be resolved politically only when representatives of ethnic groups are in Hluttaw" he said.

The UEC said that the voting machine will be used in the upcoming elections that will be held by the SAC and that it is working to obtain a national certification for the quality and standards of the voting machine in accordance with the Myanmar Standards Law (2014).