The regional bloc is more likely than the EU or the US to accept the military regime’s planned sham poll as legitimate, reports the Asia Times.
“There is simply no question of the British government accepting whatever regime which follows any military-organised elections as legitimately representing the will of the people,” said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK. “Sympathetic governments are looking to the National Unity Government to create a clear alternative to the military election agenda, which means making the concessions on federalism necessary to bring ethnic armed organisations, ethnic political parties and civil society on board to create a unified front. This hasn’t happened yet.”