The Cabinet of Htin Kyaw (), co-headed by

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Htin Kyaw Htin Kyaw ( my, ထင်ကျော်, or ; born 20 July 1946) is a Burmese politician, writer and scholar who served as the ninth president of Myanmar from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. He was the first elected president to hold the off ...

and State Counsellor

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...

, is the former

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which took office from 30 March 2016 to 30 March 2018 after the 2015 general election. This election saw the opposition

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) win a majority in both chambers of

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Overview

NLD chairperson

had vowed to rule 'above' the President. The constitution barred her from the presidency, because her husband

Michael Aris Michael Vaillancourt Aris (27 March 1946 – 27 March 1999) was an English historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, who would later become State Counsellor ...

and her two children hold British nationality. Under the

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, three ministers - of Border Affairs, Defence and Home Affairs - are appointed directly by the

National Defence and Security Council The National Defence and Security Council ( my, အမျိုးသား ကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် လုံခြုံရေး ကောင်စီ, ; abbreviated NDSC) is an eleven-member national security council respons ...

. The remaining 15 ministers were appointed by Htin Kyaw and included a majority from the NLD, but also two members of the former ruling party, the

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) and a number of independents. On 24 November 2017,two new ministries, Ministry of International Cooperation and Ministry of the Office of the Union Government were created.

State Counsellor

The State Counsellor post was created on 6 April 2016 to allow for a greater role for Aung San Suu Kyi within the

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. The bill to create the post was passed by the

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of the

Assembly of the Union 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 My ...

on 1 April 2016 and by the lower house on 5 April 2016, and signed by

on 6 April 2016. The roles of the State Counsellor are similar to the previous

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Cabinet Formation

The cabinet members are from NLD, USDP,

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and MNP. The chairperson of NLD hold the four major ministers in the cabinet. On 25 May 2016,

announced the reconstitution of his union government by the announcement No 9/2016. Aung San Suu Kyi handed over two ministries to the ministers Pe Zin Tun and

Myo Thein Gyi Myo Thein Gyi ( my, မျိုးသိမ်းကြီး; born 2 September 1965) is the former Ministry of Education (Myanmar), Minister for Education of Myanmar. He previously served as Professor of Mathematics Department, Dagon Universi ...

. A new ministry was created to serve the works of the State Counsellor. On 18 November 2016, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Tun Win was dismissed. On 2 August 2017, Minister for Electricity and Energy, Pe Zin Tun resigned. On 27 November 2017, the Union Assembly approved the creation of two new ministries - the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government, and the Ministry of International Cooperation, bringing the total number of ministries to 24.

Heads and Ministers

File:President Htin Kyaw.jpg, President Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Australia 2013.jpg, State Counsellor, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for President Office File:Myint Swe on 30 March 2016.jpg, Vice President 1 File:Van Thio.jpg, Vice President 2 File:Kyaw Swe Minister.jpg, Home Affairs Minister File:Kyaw Win.jpg, Planning and Finance Minister File:Myint Htwe.jpg, Health Minister File:Win Myat Aye.jpg, Social Welfare Minister File:U Kyaw Tin.jpg, International Cooperation Minister File:Secretary Pompeo Meets With Burmese Minister Kyaw Tint Swe (30021077357) (cropped).jpg, State Counsellor's Office Minister File:U Thuang Tun.png, Union Government Office Minister Aung Ko (cropped).jpg, Religiois affairs and Culture Minister Aung Thu Minister.jpg, Agriculture Minister Win Khaing Minister.jpg, Electricity and Energy Minister

References

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