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2nd LD Writethru: Myanmar new parliament elects speaker of House of Representatives

Xinhua, February 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's new parliament Monday elected U Win Myint of the National League for Democracy (NLD) as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and U Ti Khun Myat of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) as Deputy Speaker of the House.

The election took place at the first session of the parliament that began a new five-year term from 2016.

U Win Myint, an NLD MP to the House of Representatives from Pathein constituency in the last term of the parliament, was re-elected to the same House from Tammwe constituency in the 2015 general election.

U Ti Khun Myat is a Kachin ethnic parliament representative elected from Kutkai constituency representing the USDP.

The newly-elected parliament started its first session with the House of Representatives in Nay Pyi Taw Monday morning, two days after the expiry of the previous term of the parliament.

The summon for the first session of the new parliament came nearly three months after the end of the general election on Nov. 8, 2015, in which the NLD, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the absolute majority of the parliamentary seats.

Attending the first parliament session were a total of 430 MPs to the House of Representatives dominated by the NLD.

The session of the House of Nationalities (Upper House) is scheduled to start on Wednesday. Endit