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Win Myint - Myanmar’s New President
March 31 , 2018
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- Myanmar’s parliament picked a close ally of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the country’s new president.
- Due to health problems Htin Kyaw resigned the president post recently. Then Win Myint, a week ago resigned his post as the lower house speaker. Then he was chosen as president by both chambers of the parliament where Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party holds a comfortable majority.
- The president is the head of state and government in Myanmar, and under Myanmar’s constitution it has far-reaching powers.
- However, Htin Kyaw’s role was more ceremonial because Suu Kyi has been Myanmar’s de facto leader since April 2016.
- Aung San Suu Kyi’s party got a huge victory in the 2015 election which held after a massive struggle. Because of the foreign citizenship holding of Suu her sons she couldn’t become a president of Myanmar.
- Then she became a national advisor and her close ally Htin Kyaw become president.
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