Locals say that the SAC is making preparations in Rakhine for the election as desired.
As a preparation for this, the SAC also announced that they are going to start a population census of the entire state of Rakhine collecting right up to people’s doors for their election of the entire state of Rakhine from January 9 next year.
The SAC held a training course at U Ottama Hall in Sittwe City yesterday, December 20th, in order to conduct such field training.
The SAC also announced that the population census is to collect votes for their election to be held in August 2023.
The State of the SAC expressed that the No. 5 out of the 5 steps ahead of Na-Sa-Ka(SAC)’s agenda is to compile a voter list for the election.
For such a census, the State of the SAC also stated that approximately 7,000 people will be divided into groups of about 1,300 in the entire Rakhine State and Paletwa, Chin State.
In Rakhine, the Arakan Army (AA) and the SAC suddenly made a ceasefire on November 26, and then the SAC has prepared for this election.
Although the fighting in Rakhine has stopped temporarily, many wards and villages administrators have resigned, and the Arakan Army (AA) controls most of the areas in Rakhine State, Chin State, and Paletwa Township, so we will have to wait and see how the SAC will conduct the fieldwork, according to residents and observers of Rakhine affairs.
“During the last 2020 election, even the people’s government could not hold an election for the whole of Rakhine state. Now the AA has more control. And the people of Rakhine are no longer interested,” a local politician in Rakhine told the MPA.
Otherwise, they considered that the SAC would be able to compile it if there is a compromise agreement with the Arakan Army (AA).
At the Arakan Army’s (AA) last press conference, the media asked about the AA’s opinion on the SAC’s elections, but the AA did not give specific policy answers.
The MPA contacted the AA’s spokesperson regarding the current activities of the coup SAC in Rakhine state, but it has not yet received a reply.
The Myanmar military staged a military coup on February 1, 2021, before the new government formed by the National League for Democracy (NLD), which won the 2020 general election nationwide.
The reason for the military coup was that the National League for Democracy (NLD) committed vote fraud in the 2020 general election, and they issued a reason that the state of emergency was maintained under the 2008 Constitution.