NLD's Self-Declared Parliament Reappoints Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as Myanmar's Leader
NLD’s Self-Declared Parliament Reappoints Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as Myanmar’s Leader Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi / Thiha Lwin / The Irrawaddy 6.8k By The Irrawaddy 10 February 2021 De facto Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was appointed to a second term as the country’s State Counselor by a self-declared Parliament formed by elected lawmakers of her National League for Democracy, in an act aimed at defying military rule and asserting their electoral legitimacy. The military staged a coup last week and arrested the democratically elected leaders of the NLD government,...
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