Friday 1 March 2019

Smart but


The special commission of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw widely known as U Shwe Mann Commission was abolished by the almost unanimous decision of the MPs just a day before its expiration date. The Tatmadaw members have always been making their objection of the existence of the commission since it is considered as unconstitutional. The irony was when the speaker asked for the approval of the hluttaw for the one year extension of the commission, the NLD MPs kept silent as if they all agreed the proposal but two MPs, one from the Tatmadaw and one from the opposition party USDP signaled their disagreement by standing up. Surprisingly, the silent majority of the parliament although they have already given instruction what to do, gave no vote for the extension of the term of the commission.
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. . . Here, what the NLD did in the parliament seems to be smart. The speaker proposed the case, the opposition and the Tatmadaw showed their objection, and went voting for the decision. The NLD casted NO vote. The process seems to be very smart. It was really smart.
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. . . But wait!
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It was smart enough but was it a wise decision to orchestrate the plot in that way? Why did the NLD choose to do so? Didn’t they have no option to abolish the commission?
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. . . Removing the Commission from the formal sovereign institution is a proper decision since the chairman of the commission has already registered a new political party. That was not the case. The case here is the way the NLD did it.
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. . . Actually, the chairman of the current ruling party NLD, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was nurtured and supported by the ex-Speaker of the hluttaw U Shwe Mann when her party won the byelection and entered into the parliament as a leader of the minority opposition party. They made ally in the parliament. When the NLD won a landslide victory in the 2015 general elections, the loser U Shwe Mann was appointed as the chairman of the special commission admist the objection of the Tatmadaw members. After three years term, the commission was abolished democratically without the prior knowledge of the chairman.
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. . . The two events within the same session of the parliament clearly indicate that the NLD is going into RADICAL way for orchestrating the political plots in the parliament by the force of the majority. Did not they consider the backlash of over-smartness?
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. . . I wish such plots were not orchestrated by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who has a good reputation of reiterating such big words as NEGOTIATION, PEACEFUL WAY, and bla bla.
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God bless Myanmar,
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God bless Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Zay Yar Naing
1 March 2019

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