Kyaw Zeya ( my, ကျော်ဇေယျ, also spelt Kyaw Zayya; born 25 January 1956) is a

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politician and a retired lieutenant colonel in the

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who was served as a Member of Parliament in the

Yangon Region Hluttaw Yangon Region Hluttaw ( my, ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်) is the legislature of the Burmese region of Yangon Region. It is a unicameral body, consisting of 123 members, including 92 electe ...

for

Dagon Township Dagon Township ( my, ဒဂုံ မြို့နယ် ) is located immediately north of downtown Yangon. The township comprises five wards, and shares borders with Bahan Township in the north, Ahlon Township in the west, Mingala Taungnyunt T ...

No. 2

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. He also served on the board of

Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Limited ( my, မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးဦးပိုင်အများနှင့်သက်ဆိုင်သောကုမ္ပဏီလီမိတက်, abbreviated ...

, a major conglomerate run by the military, for 10 years. He was a member of the National League for Democracy until 2019 when he went on to join People's Pioneer Party. He left from National League for Democracy in 2019 and he joined People's Pioneer Party founded by his colleague, Thet Thet Khine, as the vice chairman while as serving as the Human Resources Committee Chair of her party.

Political career

He was a member of the National League for Democracy. 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 contesting for

from Dagon Township No. 2 parliamentary

, won a seat. Kyaw Zeya serves as a member of the Yangon Region Parliament's Finance, Planning and Economic Committee. He became the Vice Chairman of People's Pioneer Party. He also serves as Chairman of Human Resources Committee in the PPP together with Thura Aung.

References

National League for Democracy politicians Living people People from Yangon Region 1956 births {{Myanmar-politician-stub