8 | A NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM TO ENSURE MILITARY HEGEMONY IN THE NEXT PARLIAMENT Applicable international standards: • UN Human Rights Committee, CCPR General Comment No. 25, paragraph 21: “The principle of one person, one vote, must apply, and within the framework of each State’s electoral system, the vote of one elector should be equal to the vote of another. The drawing of electoral boundaries and the method of allocating votes should not distort the distribution of voters or discriminate against any group and should not exclude or restrict unreasonably the right of citizens to choose their representatives freely.” • Asian Electoral Stakeholder Forum II, Dili Indicators of Democratic Elections, item II(a): “Electoral constituency boundaries are drawn on the basis of the size of the population and geographic area.” For more: • Burma Associated Press, “Myanmar’s junta switch to PR system beneficial only to them”, 11 March 2022, https://anfrel.org/ myanmars-junta-switch-to-pr-system-beneficial-only-to-them/ • [military propaganda] Global New Light of Myanmar, “UEC continues third-day meeting of electoral reforms with political parties”, 27 December 2021, https://www.gnlm.com.mm/ueccontinues-third-day-meeting-of-electoral-reforms-with-politicalparties/ • Myanmar Now, “Junta steps up efforts to promote switch to Proportional Representation in elections”, 14 October 2021, https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/junta-steps-up-efforts-topromote-switch-to-proportional-representation-in-elections/ 37