Myanmar: USDP party establishes executive steering committee
Myanmar’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) said it established a Central E xecutive Committee (CEC) consisted of nine members, including its former Chairman U Thein Sein.
USDP former Chairman U Thein Sein (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)The decision was made in the second day of the USDP’s second national congress in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar’s capital city, on August 23 following the resignation of Chairman U Thein Sein and Vice Chairman U Htay Oo.
The USDP’s modified CEC includes 24 members, in which U Than Htay, once a brigadier general in the military and Minister of Energy and Minister of Railway Transport in the previous government, was elected as Chairman.
U Myat Hein will take over the vice chairman position left by U Htay Oo while U Thet Naing Win becomes the USDP general secretary in the secretariat, which also features five other members.
The congress also passed the establishment of a central consultative committee headed by U Ohn Myint.
In the 2015 general election, USDP won only 10 percent of the seats in the Myanmar federal parliament.-VNA
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