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Myanmar president reiterate promise for systematic power transfer

Xinhua, January 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Thursday reiterated the promise he made before the country's general election to carry out systematic power transfer in accordance with the existing laws and by-laws.

Addressing the final session of the current Union Parliament, U Thein Sein said no matter which party takes office, it is to continue to implement systematic power transfer to ensure national development.

The outgoing government will cooperate with the incoming government for the implementation, he added.

According to the president the outgoing parliament will also cooperate with the freshers for political stability and national development.

U Thein Sein also gave an account of the government's successful undertakings during the past five years, highlighting the political, economic and administrative reform, as well as private sector development and domestic peace.

The current term (2011-16) of parliament and the government will respectively expire on Jan. 30 and March 30 and the new parliament and government will take offices on Feb. 1 and March 30 in accordance with the result of the general election in November 2015.

In the election, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won an absolute majority of the parliamentary seats, getting hold of 886 seats or 77 percent in the House of Representatives, 135 or 80 percent in the House of Nationalities and 496 or 75.7 percent in the Region or State Parliament.

According to the country's constitution, the military takes up 25 percent of non-elected parliamentary seats in each level of parliament, directly nominated by the commander-in-chief of the defense services.

Also on Thursday also, the NLD nominated its two elected parliament representatives U Win Myint and U Mann Win Khaing Than to act as new speakers of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and House of Nationalities (Upper House), respectively, of the next parliament.

Meanwhile, U Ti Khun Myat from the Union Solidarity and Development Party was nominated as Lower House deputy speaker, while U Aye Tha Aung of the Arakan National Party was nominated as Upper House deputy speaker.

Myanmar's two Houses of the newly-elected parliament are due to start their first sessions in Nay Pyi Taw next Monday. Enditem