United Nationalities Democracy Party (UNDP) has a plan to offer candidates for General Election-2020 since the beginning of early May, says David Hla Myint, UNDP’s Chairman.

The UNDP was led by the 1990 Elected Candidates Group and political forces.

“We can’t offer everybody. But, a person will have the qualifications in accordance with our party, he or she must be chosen as our representative,” said David Hla Myint.

UNDP is now drawing the specifications for the candidates and the party didn’t limit the education level. However, the party must scrutinize the person who has good morals and political experiences. Moreover, the candidates will be intellectual and intelligentsia and then they will be workers and farmers, according to David Hla Myint.

At present, the President’s Office announced that the ceremonies and public events were banned until the end of April due to COVID-19 outbreak.

So, the party will be offering the candidates after limitations of the government’s announcement.

The UNDP was formed with four major groups—the 1990 Elected Candidates Group, the United National Democratic Organization (UNDO), the Union Ethnic Farmers Union and the Investigation Committee for the Human Rights Violation. More than 260 already-existed offices owned by these groups will be used as the party’s offices.

UNDP will make alliances with the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) and the Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS). Currently, there is no relation with other parties.

It will run for seats only in seven regions in the 2020 General Election. But the candidates elected in the 1990 election will not compete in the upcoming election. The UNDP will help support ethnic parties in states for the achievements in the election.

The UNDP applied to the UEC for the registration since April last year and they were allowed to establish the party in September, as well as party registration, had been received on December 11th.