The United GCBA, also known as the Ngawbinwsaing (
Burmese for "Five Flowers Alliance"), was a political party in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
led by
U Ba Pe.
History
The party was formed in 1936 as a successor to the
People's Party, and gained its name "Five Flowers Alliance" from the fact that it consisted of five parties; the People's Party, the Free Burma Party led by
U Maung Gyi, the Wun Thar Nu GCBA of
Ye U Sayadaw, the Boycott GCBA led by
U Ba Si and the Upper Burma 21 group; the party was largely based on factions of the
General Council of Burmese Associations
The General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA), also known as the Great Burma Organisation ( my, မြန်မာအသင်းချုပ်ကြီး; ''Myanma Ahthinchokgyi''), was a political party in Burma.
History
The GCBA was for ...
(GCBA).
[Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p143] In the
general elections
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
later in the year, the party won 46 of the 132 seats, but U Ba Pe was unable to form a government. The party was renamed the Nationalist Party the following year, but disintegrated shortly afterwards due to factional infighting.
[ One of the party's MPs, ]U Saw
U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw ( my-Mymr, ဦးစော or my-Mymr, ဂဠုန်ဦးစော, lit. Garuda U Saw, ; 16 March 1900 – 8 May 1948), was a leading Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of British Burma dur ...
, subsequently founded the Patriot's Party.[Fukui, p139]
References
{{Burmese political parties
Defunct political parties in Myanmar
Political parties established in 1936
1936 establishments in Burma