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Shwe Mann elected as speaker
The Burmese junta’s former third-in-command Shwe Mann has become chairman of the lower house of parliament, which today held its first session in more than 20 years.
He was elected towards the end of today’s sitting, which was attended by more than 1000 MPs who won seats in the 7 November 2010 elections.
Taking the top position in the upper house will be current culture minister, Khin Aung Myint. Both are recently retired members of the military-led government that has ruled Burma in various guises since 1962.
Vice-chairperson of the lower house, or People’s Parliament, will be Nanda Kyaw Swa, a member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which won 80 percent of seats and is set to dominate parliament. Myat Nyein, director of the Attorney General’s office, will take this position in the upper house, or Nationalities Parliament.
According to the 2008 constitution, the head of the Nationalities Parliament will reside of Union Parliament – the upper and lower house combined – for 30 months.
“The parliament announced that [three] vice-presidents will be appointed tomorrow,” said Khin Shwe, a USDP representative for the Nationalities Parliament, who was present at today’s session.
“One of them will be directly appointed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services and the two others will be appointed respectively from the People’s and the Nationalities Parliaments. One of the three vice-presidents will be elected by the Union Parliament as the president, and the other two will remain as vice-presidents.”
Security around the parliament building in Naypyidaw was tight, and eye-witnesses said that barbed wire blocked the main road leading to the building. Journalists were banned from entering, while MPs were given strict directions on dress code and banned items, which included cameras and mobile phones.
Khin Shwe added that each representative were given 300,000 kyat ($US300) to cover their food expenses for one month, while they in turn handed over an affidavit in order for them to become official MPs.
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Than Shwe has picked his obedient puppets, so now they can continue with Thitsaphout Than Shwe’s seven point plan to internal terrorism, the murders’ rapes and torture will continue as before. Whilst this regime of terror is allowed to exist in any disguise then Burma will never be free.
REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR(OR)–RUM–COUNTRY,-RUM COUNTRY!
Shwe Mann is ignominiously demoted by handing him Speaker Post.Strong rumour spreading all over Myanmar now that Than Shwe is smelling danger in his hot seat and conniving now with his secret gang to watch closely this fake parliament.
ဒီပုပ္ထဲက ဒီပဲေတြဘဲ ဆုိတာမွန္းၿပီးသားပါ။ ပုပ္ေစာ္ေတာ႔ ဒီထက္ပုိနံအုံးမေပါ႔ ခမ်။
The more I read on the more it reminds me of A Burmese king’s court. Even that name Shwe Mann reminds me of Shwe Mann Tin Maung, the reknowned dancer of an era when I was a mere kid. And now that the supreme monarch A-Laung-Gyi Than Shwe has decreed that Thein Sein, Tin Aung Myint Oo and Sai Mouk Kham become crown princes, I wonder aside from aiding the continuation of the plunderings of the country, what they have in mind to please and pleasure the likes of Suphaya-Kyaing, the princes and princesses of this evil and despicable dynasty..??