Thein Nyunt ( my, သိန်းညွန့်; born 26 December 1944 or 20 November 1944) is a Burmese lawyer, columnist, and politician. He served on Myanmar's

State Administration Council The State Administration Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ; abbreviated SAC or နစက) is the military junta currently governing Myanmar, established by Comm ...

from 2021 to 2023. A former 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 ...

(NLD), he founded the New National Democracy Party and co-founded the

National Democratic Force The National Democratic Force (NDF), is a political party in Myanmar (Burma). It was founded by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who disagreed with the party leadership's decision to boycott the 2010 general election ...

(NDF) after splitting from the NLD. Thein Nyunt served as an MP for the

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 ...

, representing

Thingangyun Township Thingangyun Township (, ) is located in the eastern part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 38 wards, and shares borders with South Okkalapa township in the north, North Dagon township in the east, Yankin township and Tamwe township in th ...

, from 2011 to 2016.

Political career

Thein Nyunt won a parliamentary seat in the 1990 Myanmar general election, representing Thingangyun Township in

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

. Thein Nyunt served as a member of the

's Central Executive Committee. In the lead-up to the

2010 Myanmar general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 2010, in accordance with the new constitution, which was approved in a referendum held in . The election date was announced by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on . The elections were th ...

, Thein Nyunt left the NLD to co-found the National Democratic Force, a new political party, with

Khin Maung Swe Khin Maung Swe ( my, ခင်မောင်ဆွေ) is a Burmese politician and member of Myanmar's State Administration Council. He is the chairman of the National Democratic Force (NDF). Early life and education Khin Maung Swe was born o ...

. The NDF contested the 2010 election, but Thein Nyunt later resigned due to internal party funding problems and ran as an independent. He won a

seat, representing

. In July 2011, he announced that he had formed a new political party, the New National Democratic Party (NNDP), to contest the 2015 Myanmar general election. He ultimately lost the race to Shwe Hla Win, a member of the NLD. In advance of the 2020 Myanmar general election, Thein Nyunt formed an alliance with the military-backed

Union Solidarity and Development Party The Union Solidarity and Development Party ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ; abbr. USDP) is a political party in Myanmar, registered on ...

(USDP). The USDP pledged not to contest the Thingyangyun Township seat to improve Thein Nyunt's odds of winning the race. Thein Nyunt's son, Nay Aung, a co-founder of the NNDP, disavowed his father's military alliance, and reported the incident to the

Union Election Commission The Union Election Commission ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကော်မရှင်, abbreviated UEC) is the national level electoral commission of Myanmar (Burma), responsible for organising an ...

. Thein Nyunt met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ...

before the 2020 election. Thein Nyunt ultimately lost the 2020 election to an NLD candidate. He was appointed to the

on 2 February 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

References

Living people Burmese politicians Members of the State Administration Council Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List 1944 births Individuals related to Myanmar sanctions {{Myanmar-bio-stub