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PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY
(Pyithu Hluttaw)

Speaker: Shwe Mann (USDP)

Deputy Speaker: Nanda Kyaw Sar (USDP)

Number of MPs	Party	%
220	USDP	51%
110	Military-appointed	25%
43	Ethnic parties*	10%
37	NLD	8%
12	NUP	2%
6	NDF	<2%
2	NNDP	<1%
1	Independent	<1%
431**		100%

* SNDP (18), RNPP (7), AMRDP (3), PNO (3), CPP (2), CNP (2), PSDP (2), WDP (2), KPP (1), TNP (1), UDPKS (1), INDP (1).

** The People’s Assembly comprises 440 seats. However, five seats were never filled in the November 2010 elections and three seats remain vacant because no by-elections were held in April 2012. In addition, RNPP MP for Arakan State’s Minbya constituency Aung Sein Tha passed away on 1 March 2012.

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