All the speculation about who will hold Myanmar’s top jobs should come to an end this month. With newly elected legislators taking their Naypyidaw seats, the specifics of further compromises between ...

Just weeks after Myanmar's military junta dissolved the country's former ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung Kyi Nyunt, chairman of the party's central executive committee, told VOA that ...

Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy's electoral victory has emboldened its leaders to press on with major changes, including at the very top of the government. There is likely to be a new ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Several of these questions seem to have been answered by Sunday’s election; ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In by-elections held in Myanmar over last weekend, Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling ...

The NLD’s most important party organ is its 21-member Central Executive Committee (CEC). It is led by Chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar’s State Counsellor), Vice Chairman Win Myint (Myanmar’s ...

Prior to the opening of the National League for Democracy's first national congress in its 25-year history, a rumour was circulating that party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be ousted by disgruntled ...

The generals who orchestrated Burma’s political transition designed a constitution with a singular purpose: preventing the nation’s democratic icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, from ever becoming President. But ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? The junta is reluctant to launch an all-out escalation because it is weak: afraid of the economic fallout on the one hand and unsure of the ...