Htay Ngwe ( my, ဌေးငွေ; born 10 August 1970) is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner currently serving as a
Pyithu Hluttaw
The Pyithu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်သူ့ လွှတ်တော်, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of whic ...
MP for
Myaung
Myaung ( my, မြောင် မြို့) is a town in the Sagaing Region in central Myanmar. It is a crowded and peaceful town where is located on the west bank of the Ayeyarwady River. It is a region between the Rivers of Ayeyarwady and ...
Constituency
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. He is a member of the
National League for Democracy
The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanm ...
.
Early life and education
Htay Ngwe was born on 10 August 1970 in
Myaung Township
Myaung Township is a township in Sagaing District in the Sagaing Division of Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only som ...
, Myanmar. He graduated with B.com from
Yangon Institute of Economics
The Yangon University of Economics (formerly the Institute of Economics, Yangon; my, ရန်ကုန် စီးပွားရေး တက္ကသိုလ် ) is the finest university of economics and business in Myanmar. Founded as ...
. His former work is farmer.
Political career
He is a member of the
National League for Democracy
The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanm ...
. In the
2015 Myanmar general election
General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015, with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by the mil ...
, he was elected as a
Pyithu Hluttaw
The Pyithu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်သူ့ လွှတ်တော်, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of whic ...
MP and elected representative from the
Myaung
Myaung ( my, မြောင် မြို့) is a town in the Sagaing Region in central Myanmar. It is a crowded and peaceful town where is located on the west bank of the Ayeyarwady River. It is a region between the Rivers of Ayeyarwady and ...
parliamentary
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constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...
.
References
Living people
1970 births
National League for Democracy politicians
Members of Pyithu Hluttaw
People from Sagaing Region
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