Thein Nyunt (politician)
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Thein Nyunt | |
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သိန်းညွန့် | |
| Member of the State Administration Council | |
| In office 2 February 2021 – 1 February 2023[1] | |
| Member of the Pyithu Hluttaw | |
| In office 30 March 2011 – 30 March 2016 | |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Shwe Hla Win |
| Constituency | Thingangyun Township |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 December 1944 (age 79) or 20 November 1944 (age 80) Kawkareik, Burma |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Political party | New National Democracy Party |
| Other political affiliations | National League for Democracy (1990–2010) National Democratic Force (2010–2011) |
| Children | Nay Aung |
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Thein Nyunt (Burmese: သိန်းညွန့်; born 26 December 1944 or 20 November 1944[2]) is a Burmese lawyer, columnist, and politician.[3] He served on Myanmar's State Administration Council from 2021 to 2023. A former member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), he founded the New National Democracy Party and co-founded the National Democratic Force (NDF) after splitting from the NLD. Thein Nyunt served as an MP for the Pyithu Hluttaw, representing Thingangyun Township, from 2011 to 2016.
Political career
[edit]Thein Nyunt won a parliamentary seat in the 1990 Myanmar general election, representing Thingangyun Township in Yangon.[4] Thein Nyunt served as a member of the National League for Democracy's Central Executive Committee.
In the lead-up to the 2010 Myanmar general election, Thein Nyunt left the NLD to co-found the National Democratic Force, a new political party, with Khin Maung Swe.[5] The NDF contested the 2010 election, but Thein Nyunt later resigned due to internal party funding problems and ran as an independent. He won a Pyithu Hluttaw seat, representing Thingangyun Township.[5] In July 2011, he announced that he had formed a new political party, the New National Democratic Party (NNDP), to contest the 2015 Myanmar general election.[5] He ultimately lost the race to Shwe Hla Win, a member of the NLD.[6]
In advance of the 2020 Myanmar general election, Thein Nyunt formed an alliance with the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).[7] The USDP pledged not to contest the Thingyangyun Township seat to improve Thein Nyunt's odds of winning the race.[7] Thein Nyunt's son, Nay Aung, a co-founder of the NNDP, disavowed his father's military alliance, and reported the incident to the Union Election Commission.[7] Thein Nyunt met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing before the 2020 election. Thein Nyunt ultimately lost the 2020 election to an NLD candidate.[8] He was appointed to the State Administration Council on 2 February 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Min Aung Hlaing (1 February 2023). "State Administration Council Order No 5/2023" (PDF). Global New Light of Myanmar. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Burma-related Designations; Counter Terrorism Designations". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "Thein Nyunt: 'I've Stood Tirelessly by the People'". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီပါတီသစ်ပါတီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဦးသိန်းညွန့် သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်းမြို့နယ် ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်မဲဆန္ဒနယ်၌ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ယှဉ်ပြိုင်မည်". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ a b c "ဦးသိန်းညွန့် ပါတီသစ်ထောင်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ၏ ဆန္ဒမဲရရှိမှုအခြေအနေ ( ၂၀၁၅ ခုနှစ်၊ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ )". Union Election Commission (in Burmese).
- ^ a b c "Son of pro-military politician tries to have father's party evicted from its headquarters". Myanmar NOW. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "Co-opting Civilians into Myanmar's State Administration Council Junta". FULCRUM. 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
- ^ "မန်းငြိမ်းမောင်၊ ဦးသိန်းညွန့်နဲ့ ဦးခင်မောင်ဆွေတို့ကို တပ်မတော်နေရာပေး". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-02-02.
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