GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
January 14th, 2010
Back in December I wrote about Aung San Suu Kyi’s meeting with the more senior (literally) members of the National League for Democracy’s leadership to explore how new, more vigorous, blood might be brought into the organization before this fall’s elections. Now, nine new members have been added.
From Earth Times:
Myanmar’s National League for Democracy opposition party on Thursday announced an expansion of its central executive committee, weeks after Aung San Suu Kyi called for reforms. The NLD has added nine new members to the existing 11-man central executive committee, which has led the party for two decades and includes several octogenarians.
The new party executives are Than Nyein, Ohn Kyaing, Win Myint, Tun Tun Hein, Win Naing, Nyan Win, Han Tha Myint, Thein Nyunt and May Win Myint, a relatively younger lot of elected members of parliament.
Political observers said the move was a transitional step paving the way for the older NLD leaders to resign.
Now it is up to these nine to make a difference.
[...] for Democracy’s newly expanded central excutive committee has met for the first time with its eight men and one woman who are the newest members. The CEC expanded after NLD Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi encourged its three senior members to bring [...]