People's Pioneer Party

The People's Pioneer Party (Burmese: ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ; abbr. PPP) is a political party in Myanmar. More than half of the party's 19 founders are businessmen. They include U Myint, a former economic adviser to the Thein Sein's Cabinet; Zaw Oo, an economist who also serves as the party's economic and policy adviser; and Thet Thet Khaing, former member of the Pyithu Hluttaw for Dagon Township who resigned from the National League for Democracy.[7]

People's Pioneer Party
ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ
Secretary-GeneralSaw Han Aye
ChairmanThet Thet Khaing
Vice ChairmenKyaw Zeya and Myint Maung Tun
General SecretarySaw Han Aye
Founded23 October 2019 (2019-10-23)[1][2]
Split fromNational League for Democracy
HeadquartersSanchaung Township, Yangon Region[3]
Membership1,000+[1]
IdeologyUltranationalism[4][5][6]
Buddhist nationalism[6]
Political positionRight-wing to far-right[4][5][6]
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The party's founders claimed that a majority of Myanmar's business community was involved in founding the party to help revive the country's declining economy.[8] The People's Pioneer Party ran more than 230 candidates in 11 regions and states in the 2020 general election but won none of the seats.[4][9] Many members of the party are former military personnel and those with ties to the ultranationalist organisation Ma Ba Tha.[4][5][6] In fact, Thet Thet Khaing was one of the sponsors for Ma Ba Tha's third anniversary conference in 2016 and made donations to Insein Ywama Sayadaw, former chairman of Ma Ba Tha, during her election campaign in 2020.[6][10]

History

Thet Thet Khaing was expelled from the Dagon Township Township Executive Committee of the NLD in November 2018 for allegedly publicly criticizing the NLD through the media. In late 2019, Thet Thet Khaing officially resigned from the NLD and founded the People's Pioneer Party.

The People's Pioneer Party was officially registered as a political party on 23 October 2019 by the Union Election Commission. Kyaw Zeya, a member of the Yangon Region Hluttaw and a frequent critic of the Yangon Region Government, joined the PPP on 25 January 2020, after being officially expelled from the NLD.[11][12]

Structure

References
  1. အင်ကြင်းနိုင်. "ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ မိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ ပါတီမူဝါဒ အကြမ်းဖျင်းထွက်ပေါ်". VOA Burmese.
  2. ဇူးဇူး (30 November 2019). "ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီသည် ခေါင်းဆောင်တဦးတည်းကို အားကိုးမည့်ပါတီ မဟုတ်ဟုဆို". ဧရာဝတီ သတင်းဌာန.
  3. ဆန်းထူးအောင်. "ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ (PPP) အနေဖြင့် ၂၀၂၀ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် တိုင်းဒေသကြီးခုနစ်ခု၌ ဝင်ရောက်ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ရန် စဉ်းစားထား". Eleven Media.
  4. Phyo Thiha Cho (9 November 2020). "PPP chair Thet Thet Khine faces landslide defeat". Myanmar Now.
  5. Thazin Hlaing (17 September 2020). "People's Pioneer Party Stands by Nationalist Candidate in Myanmar's Election". The Irrawaddy.
  6. Khin Moh Moh Lwin (17 September 2020). "People's Pioneer Party hides hardline nationalist politics beneath progressive veneer". Myanmar Now.
  7. "ပါတီမှ ထွက်ခွင့်ရပြီးနောက် ပါတီသစ်ဖြင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆက်လုပ်မည်ဟု NLD အမတ်ဆို". Myanmar NOW.
  8. "PPP ပါတီတွင် စီးပွားရေးပညာရှင်နှင့် လုပ်ငန်းရှင်များ ဦးဆောင်မည်ဟုဆို". Myanmar NOW.
  9. "ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီက အမတ်လောင်း ၂၃၀ ကျော်စာရင်း ထုတ်ပြန်". Radio Free Asia.
  10. Mratt Kyaw Thu (23 June 2016). "What next for Ma Ba Tha?". Frontier Myanmar.
  11. "NLD ပါတီက ထုတ်တဲ့ ဦးကျော်ဇေယျ PPP ပါတီဝင်ရောက်". BBC News မြန်မာ.
  12. Party, People's Pioneer (2019). "PPP". Eleven Media.
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