People's Pioneer Party ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ | |
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Secretary-General | Saw Han Aye |
Chairman | Thet Thet Khaing |
Vice Chairmen | Kyaw Zeya and Myint Maung Tun |
General Secretary | Saw Han Aye |
Founded | 23 October 2019[1][2] |
Split from | National League for Democracy |
Headquarters | Sanchaung Township, Yangon Region[3] |
Membership | 1,000+[1] |
Ideology | Ultranationalism[4][5][6] Buddhist nationalism[6] |
Political position | Right-wing to far-right[4][5][6] |
Management Committee of the State Administration Council | 1 / 32
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The People's Pioneer Party (Burmese: ပြည်သူ့ရှေ့ဆောင်ပါတီ; abbr. PPP) is a political party in Myanmar. More than half of the party's 19 founders are businessmen. They include U Myint, a former economic adviser to the Thein Sein's Cabinet; Zaw Oo, an economist who also serves as the party's economic and policy adviser; and Thet Thet Khaing, former member of the Pyithu Hluttaw for Dagon Township who resigned from the National League for Democracy.[7]
The party's founders claimed that a majority of Myanmar's business community was involved in founding the party to help revive the country's declining economy.[8] The People's Pioneer Party ran more than 230 candidates in 11 regions and states in the 2020 general election but won none of the seats.[4][9] Many members of the party are former military personnel and those with ties to the ultranationalist organisation Ma Ba Tha.[4][5][6] In fact, Thet Thet Khaing was one of the sponsors for Ma Ba Tha's third anniversary conference in 2016 and made donations to Insein Ywama Sayadaw, former chairman of Ma Ba Tha, during her election campaign in 2020.[6][10]