Suu Kyi sends new MPs to parliament school

AFP, YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar’s parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said Thursday. The veteran  campaigner’s National League for Democracy party won a thunderous majority in landmark November polls that are set to tip the balance of power away from the military for the first time in decades. Some 390 NLD MPs will flood into parliament in February, mostly political newcomers with no experience of the Naypyidaw legislature, which itself has only been in operation since a quasi-civilian regime replaced military rule in 2011. “The new MPs do know about politics but they need to learn more about the parliament,” party spokesman Win Htein told AFP. He said a series of classes would teach the budding politicians about the operations of the legislature as well other key topics like the country’s controversial army-drafted constitution to help “improve their performance” as MPs.

Suu Kyi sends new MPs to parliament school

AFP, YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmars parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said Thursday. The veteran campaigners National League for Democracy party won a thunderous majority in landmark November polls that are set to tip the balance of power away from the military for the first time in decades. Some 390 NLD MPs will flood into parliament in February, mostly political newcomers with no experience of the Naypyidaw legislature, which itself has only been in operation since a quasi-civilian regime replaced military rule in 2011. The new MPs do know about politics but they need to learn more about the parliament, party spokesman Win Htein told AFP. He said a series of classes would teach the budding politicians about the operations of the legislature as well other key topics like the countrys controversial army-drafted constitution to help improve their performance as MPs.