Chin State Hluttaw ( my, ချင်းပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်) is the
legislature
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of the Burmese state of
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. The Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, Bangladesh to the south-west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Ma ...
. It is a
unicameral
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Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multi ...
body, consisting of 24 members, including 18 elected members and 6 military representatives. As of February 2016, the Hluttaw was led by
speaker
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* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
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** I ...
Zo Bawi
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* ''Kamen Rider ZO'', a 1993 Japanese tokusatsu movie
* ''Zo'' (album), an album by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp
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of the
National League for Democracy
The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma). It ...
(NLD).
As of the
2015 general election, the
National League for Democracy (NLD) won the most contested seats in the legislature.
Myanmar Times - State/Region Hluttaw Results: Graphics
/ref> Nevertheless, the NLD was unable to win an absolute majority in the legislature due to the 6 appointed military members in the legislature.
Election results
2015
See also
*State and Region Hluttaws
Myanmar ( also known as ''Burma'') is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include seven states (; ''pyi ne'', ), seven regions (; ''taing detha gyi'', ), five self-administered zones and one self-administered division (Wa ...
*Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု လွှတ်တော် lit. Assembly of the Union) is the ''de jure'' national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar (officially known as the ''Republic of the Union of M ...
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