ANP aims for two-thirds of Rakhine State’s seats
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As the two major national parties, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party and the opposition National League for Democracy, square off in advance of the November 8 election, attention is also being directed to the prospects of the country’s many ethnic-based parties. The Arakan National Party, the apparently successful product of a merger between two smaller Rakhine parties, is widely tipped to scoop a number of seats in the state.