The New Mon State Party (NMSP)’s vice-chair Nai Hong Sar said only one Mon party should run in the election as long as the Mon people are unable to obtain the right to self-determination.
He said this during the opening ceremony of the Second Mon Political Conference, which was held at Lawi Marn Sasana 2500 monastery in Mon State’s Mawlamyine Capital, on May 12.
“We will be united if there is only one Mon party. We can determine our own destiny quickly when we are united. That’s why I want to urge [everyone] to forget personal or group conflicts from the past and not to close the door to reunification so that we can gather scattered forces,” said Nai Hong Sar, who is also a patron of the Second Mon Political Conference.
According to him, the NMSP is striving for the merger of the Mon National Party (MNP) and the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) and it will change its view and find a new path if the two parties cannot merge by the end of 2018.
“We are striving for the merger of the two parties up to now. Our party’s central executive committee has decided to find a new path if the two parties are unable to merge by the end of 2018. This means we might have to leave them behind,” he continued.
