Qatar- Myanmar Begins New Parliament Session

2/1/2016 5:53:05 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Naypyidaw February 01 (QNA) - Hundreds of MPs have begun a parliamentary session in Myanmar to see in the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years.
It is an assembly dominated by MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) which won 80% of elected seats in November's poll.
But a quarter of all seats are reserved for the military which also retains control of key ministries according to the (BBC).
One of the new parliament's first jobs will be to choose a new president.
The new parliament will also be choosing its new chairman as well as the speakers and deputy speakers of both the lower and upper houses the BBC reported. (QNA)

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