Twenty six political parties including Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have demanded a meeting with the Union Election Commission (UEC) to discuss election matters.
The parties sent an open letter carrying nine points to the commission, according to the Facebook page of USDP on May 26.
The letter called for a suitable timeline for a face-to-face meeting for mutual discussion because the UEC has met with the political parties only three times in three years since it took office.
"A free and fair election is the demand and wish of our political parties. These are coordinated matters to be discussed with the UEC. But the commission has met with us three times only in three years. These are very few. In those meetings also, we were mainly listeners. We had little chance to express our voices. This is why we have now demand a meeting on an appropriate date," USDP spokesperson Thein Tun Oo.
Most of the parties that sent the open letter to the UEC along with USDP have frequently issued joint statements on the country's political and economic affairs.
They are the National Unity Party, New National Democracy Party, National Progressive Party, Democratic Party (Myanmar), New Era People's Party, National Political Alliances League and so on.
The 26 parties claimed in the letter that they have discussion and suggestion to make regarding the qualifications of a parliamentary candidate, lawlessness, injustice, disqualification, balloting, percentage of voters, voter listing, voting procedures and others.
