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The '''United GCBA''', also known as the '''Ngawbinwsaing''' (Burmese for "Five Flowers Alliance"), was a political party in Burma led by U Ba Pe.
==History== The party was formed in 1936 as a successor to the People's Party,<ref>Robert H Taylor (1987) ''The State in Burma'', C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, p185</ref> 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;<ref>Hans-Bernd Zöllner (2006) [http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs11/mlp10.05-op.pdf "Material on Ba Khaing, Political History of Myanma"], Myanmar Literature Project</ref> the party was largely based on factions of the General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA).<ref name=PP>Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p143</ref> In the general 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.<ref name=PP/> One of the party's MPs, U Saw, subsequently founded the Patriot's Party.<ref>Fukui, p139</ref>
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Category:Defunct political parties in Myanmar Category:Political parties established in 1936 Category:1936 establishments in Burma