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Feb 25 – A retired general from an army-backed party that swept\u00a0Myanmar’s election<\/a>\u00a0is set to take the powerful role of speaker of parliament, party sources said, which could help the military cement control of government after a return to democratic rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A junta that has run Myanmar since a 2021 coup will formally cede power after a new parliament meets next month, with the top generals expected to loom large<\/a> in politics after a resounding election win<\/a> by the Union Solidarity and Development Party, which the military formed in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three USDP sources told Reuters the party’s chairman, Khin Yi, a retired brigadier general and former police chief, is tipped to take the pivotal post of lower house speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In that role, he would oversee the election of a new president, the passage of laws and the approval of budgets and key state appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USDP did not respond to requests for comment on Khin Yi’s future role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters: Feb 25 – A retired general from an army-backed party that swept\u00a0Myanmar’s election\u00a0is set to take the powerful role of speaker of parliament, party sources said, which could help the military cement control of government after a return to democratic rule. A junta that has run Myanmar since a 2021 coup will formally cede power after a new parliament meets next month, with the top generals expected to loom large in politics after a resounding election win by the Union Solidarity and Development Party, which the military formed in 2010. Three USDP sources told Reuters the party’s chairman, Khin Yi, a retired brigadier… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55009,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007\/revisions\/55009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}