Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) hasdisqualified a minority party in Rakhine State as it could not follow thenecessary regulations.

Mro National Party (MNP) became the first Rakhineparty to face the restriction among the parties from Rakhine State which wereallowed to get registered with the UEC.

The media outletsrun by the militarycouncil reported that the UEC had officially dissolved the party on 22November.

A person close to the MNP informed Narinjara News thatthe UEC put many guidelines for the political parties. Among those one was toopen party offices in five townships. 

The MNP leadersappealed to the election authority to ignore the criterias, as they couldn'tfollow the directions.

The minority party wassupposed to open offices in five townships namely Maungdaw, Pona Kyunt,Buthidaung, Kyauk Taw and Sittwe.

The UEC in a statementrevealed that following the appeal from the MNP’s central executive committee,it held a meeting on 22 November and decided to cancel its registration inaccordance with the article 19 subsection (a) of the Political PartiesRegistration Act.

The Rakhine/Arakan Front Party, Mro Ethnic DevelopmentParty, Khami National Development Party and Rakhine State National Power Partywere registered by the concerned authority.

Popular Rakhine political party named Arakan NationalParty is yet to get registered by the UEC.