Power Grab; Myanmar's Parliament  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8809 (Nov. 2012), page 25-26.
Topik: Geographic Profiles; Politics; Parliaments; Political Parties; Public Officials; Political Power

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When hundreds of freshly minted members of parliament arrived in the capital, Naypyidaw, in January 2011 to take up their seats in the gaudy new parliament building, nobody took them very seriously. The main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), had boycotted the general election the previous October. At the time their leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, remained under house arrest, and the election was heavily rigged in favour of the proxy party of the country's generals, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). So the majority who took up seats were military MPs. The few non-military MPs, mainly from minority ethnic parties, struggled just to be heard, let alone hold ministers to account. Now, however, all that is changing. Indeed, in the political transformation of Myanmar that continues both to baffle and amaze, the rise of parliament is one of the more surprising features. Parliament became somewhat more democratic after by-elections in April to fill the seats of MPs appointed to government. The arrival of Suu Kyi and her colleagues certainly gave parliament a jolt.

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