Is Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw scores +02 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +06. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw scores +09. Constitution reserving a quarter of parliament to the army; 2021 coup; civil war since.

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Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw

1988– · Myanmar · Contested · Held state power · coding confidence low

+02ECmarket

+06CUtraditional

+09AUmonist

+08SCcentral

+08IDascriptive

+06CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

A military claiming guardianship of national unity against an elected party it twice removed by force.

Economic model

Military conglomerates dominating extraction and services; sanctions; war economy.

Organisation of powers

Constitution reserving a quarter of parliament to the army; 2021 coup; civil war since.

Reading note

Coded here as the post-2021 governing reality, not as the elected party's programme. Both entries would sit far apart and only one holds power.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +02

Coded +2: military conglomerates dominating extraction and services under sanctions.

Documented act or statuteMEHL and MEC hold interests across banking, jade, telecoms and construction.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +06

Coded +6: Buddhist nationalism deployed by the military and tolerated by the elected government.

Documented act or statuteThe 2015 race and religion protection laws restricted interfaith marriage and conversion.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +09

Coded +9: the elected result annulled by force.

Documented act or statuteThe 2020 election result was voided and the government detained in the February 2021 coup.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +08

Coded +8: a centralised state fighting ethnic armed organisations in most border regions.

Documented act or statuteThe 2008 constitution reserves a quarter of parliament to the army and blocks amendment without it.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +08

Coded +8: the Rohingya deprived of citizenship and expelled.

Documented act or statuteThe 1982 citizenship law excluded the Rohingya; around 750,000 were driven into Bangladesh in 2017.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +06

Coded +6: rule sustained by armed force against a nationwide insurgency.

Documented act or statuteAirstrikes on civilian areas have been documented continuously since 2021.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Myanmar

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Myanmar: NLD and Tatmadaw. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/nld_tatmadaw/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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