The Day Civilians Took Office in Myanmar After 53 Years of Military Rule

By The Irrawaddy 30 March 2022

On at the present time in 2016, a civilian authorities took workplace for the primary time in 53 years in Myanmar following the Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD)’s victory within the November 2015 common election.

U Htin Kyaw was sworn in as president on March 30, 2016, on the parliament and went to the presidential residence the place he took the presidential insignia from his predecessor, ex-general U Thein Sein of the Union Solidarity and Growth Occasion in entrance of the Sihasana Palin (Lion Throne), the image of sovereignty.

Commander-in-Chief (now junta chief) Min Aung Hlaing, Vice President (now the regime’s performing president) U Myint Swe and NLD chair Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (now detained) had been current. It was the primary switch of energy to a civilian authorities because the 1962 coup when then army chief Common Ne Win seized energy from an elected authorities.

The NLD gained the 1990 common election however the then regime refused to simply accept the outcomes.

Regardless of the NLD authorities’s efforts at nationwide reconciliation, tensions arose with the army, which noticed the NLD as a risk to its position.

Underneath the military-drafted 2008 Structure, the army retained management of three of essentially the most highly effective ministries: residence affairs, border affairs and protection.

After the NLD gained one other majority within the 2020 election, Myanmar’s army used alleged electoral fraud as an excuse and seized energy from the elected authorities.

The civilian authorities held workplace for lower than 5 years with the restricted powers supplied by the 2008 Structure.

U Myint Swe at present lives within the presidential residence and Min Aung Hlaing receives international diplomats and worldwide dignitaries in entrance of the Lion Throne.

State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint have been detained because the Feb. 1 coup and face lengthy phrases of imprisonment for an array of prices.

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