Myanmar
New Parliament in Myanmar to take up work
After decades of struggle for democracy draws Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for democracy as the majority party in Parliament. So it is serious for the large part, inexperienced Neuparlamentarier.
U Bo Bo has everything neatly laid: Newspapers, books, and Parlamentsausweis are at hand, a few towels dangle from a wooden drying rack. Only two hours ago, that the deputies in his new home moved in, the one at the most Spartan charm award: wooden beds, a concrete floor, a rattling fan, and a ton of water to the showers.
In prison he would have only a bamboo Mat, jokes of the tall Burmese with the goldumrandeten glasses and post a few photos from his trip to the capital. U Bo Bo was once a political prisoner of Myanmar’s military dictatorship. As of today, he as the member of Parliament for
Aung San Suu Kyi
National League for democracy (NLD) in Parliament to officially represent the people.
U Bo Bo in the dormitory of the NLD
New Home
It is the first Time after five decades of military dictatorship and a highly regarded political transformation that Myanmar is now, democratically elected politicians to be governed. Far more than two-thirds of the electorate voted in the parliamentary elections last autumn (08.11.2015) for the NLD, so that the military-based solidarity and development party of the Union (USDP) will replace.
On the grounds of the NLD-residence, is it for the ratios of Naypyidaw almost closely. The nearly 400 members of the NLD have a statement from the NCC, together in the cramped Dorm living. In the morning you rise in lachsfarbenen NLD-shirts in Shuttle buses on the deserted highways through the oversized Naypyidaw to Parliament and back again carts. The capital, which is mainly from government departments and free-standing hotels, was 2005 of the generals artificially created.
The long road to democracy
U Bo Bo is fifty years old. He has almost half of his life spent in prison. 20 years and five days, they locked the military junta for him, because he 1988, with other
Students for democracy
in his country, had used. “Compared to this, how long in the United States for civil rights was fought, it is not a long time,” he says. Against the generals, the him twenty years of his life robbed, he had no grudges. “We must continue our struggle for democracy,” he says, “and this only works if we the past behind us”.
Repeated also said Aung San Suu Kyi, who, even two decades in house arrest had to spend, that the reconciliation with the old Regime wants. You need to negotiate with the military to arrange. Whose Power was the electoral victory of the NLD in their foundations, not attacked: Still remain the three key ministries (home Affairs, defense, and border guard) under the control of the generals, a quarter of all deputies in Parliament are military. They possess de facto a Veto right on Amendments to the Constitution, which, in turn, their Power in Myanmar cemented.
Mistrust to overcome
In 1990 did the military ever backed down and canceled a landslide election victory of the NLD. The reminder in the country is still alive – especially these days. The Trauma will always distrust. Members shall be instructed not to with the media to speak and also with information about the formation of the government holds you back. Only one stands as far as: Aung San Suu Kyi can’t be President. The Constitution prohibits it, because her two sons, a British passport.
The priority of U Bo Bo and all of his NLD colleagues in the new Parliament it is, therefore, to change the Constitution. Experience as a politician, he has hardly. But a lot of idealism. “To be a politician, is not difficult,” he says. In which Board he likes to sit would be? “The party will decide for me.”
Daw Thet Thet Khine in her home in Yangon
Criticism in its own ranks
At this Obrigkeitshörigkeit disturb Daw Thet Thet Khine, the first since the elections become politically active. De 48-year-old entrepreneur was in November, the NLD MP elected. Since then, she has no more time for her doctoral thesis in business administration, or a jewellery Empire with her husband has built.
“In the NLD, there is a lack of people with Expertise,” complains the trained health care provider. She studied abroad also, the economy was in public administration and served for many years as a representative of Myanmar chamber of Commerce. Foreign embassies invite you to discuss the future of the country to discuss. But in the NLD, she finds no hearing.
With the opinion, that party veterans Aung San Suu Kyi of all, to shield what their own Power question could be, is Thet Thet Khine is not alone. Positions would the members of the inner Machtzirkels of the NLD, especially after that forgive who his the old times, familiar as the party is still in the underground to operate had to. The reports also other frustrated NLD insiders. For capable newcomers in the party like Thet Thet Khine there remains little room for manoeuvre. At least for the time being.