The Committee representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has declared the 2008 Constitution is abolished and plans to set up a national unity government to eliminate the dictatorship, according to their statement of March 31st.
In its statement, the CRPH said the firm aspiration of all ethnic peoples in the country is the emergence of a federal democratic union which can fully guarantee the democracy, equality and self-determination based on justice, equality and freedom.
On March 31st, the CRPH also released the 20-page Federal Democracy Charter which is the basis of the forthcoming declaration of a Federal Democratic Union.
The Federal Democracy Charter which was drafted and approved by the federal democratic forces comprising both ethnic Bamar and ethnic minority nationalities, with the aim of ensuring the termination of dictatorship, the total cancellation of the 2008 Constitution, building up the federal democratic union and the emergence of the people’s government, has emerged.
The 2008 Constitution is already void as the army took the country’s power by breaking the provisions of the 2008 Constitution on February 1st.
After the CRPH, a committee of elected MPs serving as a shadow government, declared Myanmar’s military-drafted 2008 Constitution abolished, many young people in Yangon burned copies of the 2008 charter on Thursday.
The military takeover on Feb. 1 violated the Constitution and as a result nullified it, the CRPH stated. Drafted by the then-military regime, the 2008 Constitution automatically granted the military a quarter of parliamentary seats and three ministerial portfolios, together with other special powers, privileges and immunity from prosecution for human rights violations.
The issuance of the Federal Democracy charter aims to end the root causes of conflict, to ensure the inclusiveness of all ethnics, and to build up a federal democratic union which can guarantee equality and self-determination through a democratic system based on the freedom, equality and justice for all citizens.
