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1st LD: Myanmar's newly-elected union parliament starts first session in Nay Pyi Taw

Xinhua, February 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar's newly-elected union parliament started its first session in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday morning, 10 days after the expiry of the previous term of the parliament.

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

Attending the first union parliament session, chaired by U Mann Win Khaing Than of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who is also speaker of the House of Nationalities (Upper House), were a total of 648 members of the union parliament. Endit