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Myanmar's next term of parliament sessions to begin in February

Xinhua, January 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

The next term of sessions of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and the House of Nationalities (Upper House) of the parliament, produced through Nov. 8 general election 2015, will begin in Nay Pyi Taw on Feb.1, parliament sources said Wednesday.

The current term of the parliament, which was produced through the 2010 general election and ran from 2011, will expire on Jan. 30, 2016.

Current speaker of the House of Representatives U Shwe Mann has called for doing preparatory work to transfer parliamentary duties to the freshers.

Myanmar held a general election to elect representatives on Nov.8, 2015.

In accordance with the election result, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the absolute majority of the parliamentary seats, which is strong enough for it to form a new government independently under the constitution and has right to nominate the president and two vice presidents.

Suu Kyi herself also won as a representative re-elected to the Lower House of the next parliament.

In the general election, the NLD won 880 parliamentary seats or 77.3 percent out of a total of 1,139 at three levels of parliament, shared by 254 or 79 percent are in the House of Representatives (Lower House), 135 or 80 percent in the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and 474 or 75.7 percent in the Region or State Parliament as well as 17 ethnic representatives to the Region or State Parliament. Enditem