ANP aims for two-thirds of Rakhine State’s seats
As the two major national parties, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party and the opposition National League for Democracy, square off in advance of the November 8 election, attention is also being directed to the prospects of the country’s many ethnic-based parties. The Arakan National Party, the apparently successful product of a merger between two smaller Rakhine parties, is widely tipped to scoop a number of seats in the state.
