A Kachin woman attends a National League for Democracy rally in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on October 2, 2015 ahead of the general election that year. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)
A Kachin woman attends a National League for Democracy rally in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on October 2, 2015 ahead of the general election that year. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

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