Myanmar’s Suu Kyi sends new MPs to parliament school


Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi (C) attends Myanmar's first Parliament meeting after the general elections, at Union Parliament in Naypyidaw on November 16, 2015. Suu Kyi returned to parliament along with dozens of rivals freshly hammered by her pro-democracy party's landslide election victory as the legislature begins a overseeing the country's delicate transition. AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU

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.

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