Myanmar to use mixed-electoral system for Amyotha Hluttaw, Region/State Hluttaw combining PR and FPTP

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Htet Nadi (NP News)-August 3
The sixth amendment to the Election Laws of Amyotha Hluttaw and Region/State Hluttaw has been enacted, which will jointly apply the proportional representation (PR) system and the first past the post (FPTP) system.
Section 4 of the Amyotha Hluttaw Election Law has been substituted to state that, in determining the constituencies of the Amyotha Hluttaw, the Commission shall: (a) for regions or states without self-administered divisions or self-administered zones, the townships shall be grouped together to elect six Hluttaw representatives by the first-past-the-post system, (b) for regions or states with self-administered divisions or self-administered zones, the constituencies shall be grouped together to elect six Hluttaw representatives by the first-past-the-post system, (1) for each self-administered division or self-administered zone, one Hluttaw constituency shall be designated; (2) after such designation, the townships shall be grouped together to designate the remaining constituencies; (c) for each region or state, the constituencies shall be designated so that the remaining six Hluttaw representatives may be elected by the proportional representation system; (d) It has been substituted by the provision that if any area falling within a designated Hluttaw constituency for a term of the Hluttaw is designated as a Union Territory, that area shall be deemed to be included only within the originally designated Hluttaw constituency.
Section 4 of the Region or State Hluttaw Election Law has been substituted to provide that, in determining the Hluttaw constituencies for each Region or State, shall: (a) designate one constituency per township for the purpose of electing each Hluttaw representative through the first-past-the-post system; (b) designate constituencies by grouping the townships together for the purpose of electing one Hluttaw representative through the proportional representation system for the remaining Hluttaw representatives; (c) designate the entire Region or State concerned as one constituency for each ethnic group that is entitled to elect Hluttaw representatives under subsections (b) and (c) of section 161 of the Constitution.
Subsection (a) of Section 89 of the Amyotha Hluttaw Election Law shall be replaced with the following: “If a seat of a member of the Amyotha Hluttaw becomes vacant for any reason in the Amyotha Hluttaw, a replacement shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the proportional representation system, and an election shall be held in accordance with the law for a seat of a member of the Amyotha Hluttaw elected by the first-past-the-post system.” -