The establishment of the Interim Executive Council of Karenni State (IEC) was announced on 12 June as a step to develop Karenni State into a federal unit and to ensure self-administrative power of the state.

The council is comprised of six council members, and will be expanded into at least 12 state affairs departments.

The Karenni State is one of the strongest resistance areas fighting against the Myanmar military regime after the 2021 coup, and the military carried out 108 airstrikes in this state in April this year alone.

The announcement on forming the IEC said that the council will work to protect the lives and property of its people, to deliver public services and to fulfill the fundamental needs of the people including education, health, food and other basic necessities, while developing short-term and long-term plans to mobilize revolutionary forces and provide adequate protection for the people.

It has also been committed to work with revolutionary forces at home and abroad, and collaborate with the CRPH, NUCC and NUG for the emergence of a federal democratic union.

The IEC was established under the political leadership and policy guidelines of the Karen State Consultative Council (KSCC) which was earlier formed in April 2021, with the intention to abolish the military-written 2008 Constitution, to remove all forms of dictatorship, to adopt state constitutions and to build a federal union.

In the announcement, the IEC specified its objectives to carry out executive functions of the interim state government through collective leadership, to ensure checks and balances between legislative, executive and judicial branches, and to bring about peace and stability within Karenni State, and to enhance closer and practical cooperation with different revolutionary forces located in Karenni State.

The IEC emphasized that it will uphold its core values of national equality, justice and self-determination, and be fully committed to the establishment of a federal union before it is dissolved within a pre-specified time frame after the new Karenni State Government with self-determination has been formed.

Congratulatory messages for the establishment of IEC were sent by ethnic revolutionary organizations and resistance forces.