Newly elected Mon State members of parliament (MPs) met with their predecessors and the outbound Mon State Hluttaw Chairman at Mon State’s Hluttaw (parliament) Hall, in Moulmein, the Mon State capital, on 18 and 19 January.
Only a few of the outgoing Hluttaw members attended the meeting with their parliamentary successors, Tatmadaw representatives, and the departing Mon State Hluttaw Chairman, U Kyin Pe.
At the meeting, discussions reportedly revolved around legislation and activities slated for the first session of the Hluttaw and the transferring authority to incoming members.
U Kyin Pe said: “Speaking frankly, we are handing Mon State’s future over to these 31 new representatives. What will the public conclude about the work of these 31 representatives during their five year term from 2016 to 2021? For me, I would suggest that they do their best. I believe they will do their best. I pray for the best to happen.”
U Aung Kyaw Thu, the State Hluttaw representative for Thaton Township Constituency-2, said that at the meeting the outgoing Hluttaw members talked about areas for parliamentary improvement and mistakes they had made during their term.
He said: “What they reported is that some projects they implemented encountered long delays due to weak communication between the State and Union levels.”
He also said that newly elected members from the National League for Democracy would remain grounded in their party’s policies.
According to Dr. Aung Naing Oo, the only re-elected State Hluttaw MP, the first session of the Mon State Hluttaw is scheduled to commence on the 1st or 8th February.
The Mon State Hluttaw is comprised of 31 members: 20 elected representatives; three elected representatives of the Karen, Bamar, and Pa-O ethnic groups; and eight representatives from the Tatmadaw, or Burmese Armed Forces.
Edited in English by Mark Inkey for BNI
