Sagaing Region’s interim ‘bottom-up’ federal democratic ‘unit’ established

The Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw (SFUH) elected Soe Oo, the National League for Democracy (NLD) member of parliament for Sagaing Township No. 1 in the Sagaing Region Hluttaw from 2020-21, as Prime Minister of the Sagaing Federal Unit Interim Government on Monday. 

Myint Htwe and Phyu Phyu Win, two other NLD members of parliament ousted in the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, were elected as chairperson and vice-chairperson of the SFUH during its 6th regular session on Nov. 17.

“This is the first bottom-up process in the region, so everyone needs to help and support it,” Kyaw Wai Phyo, the president of the Federation of Sagaing Forum, told DVB. 

He added that the Federation of the Sagaing Forum is a coordination body working alongside the SFUH to establish a federal democratic Sagaing Region “to advance the revolution.” 

The SFUH 6th regular session was attended by National Unity Government (NUG) officials, including Prime Minister Mahn Winn Khaing Thann, and members of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), including Toe Kyaw Hlaing.

SFUH interim Prime Minister Soe Oo previously served as the Minister of Planning and Finance in the Sagaing Region government from 2015-2020.

Myint Htwe and Phyu Phyu Win were first elected in 2015 and re-elected in the 2020 general elections, representing the NLD in Ye-U Township Constituency No. 2 and Kawlin Township Constituency No. 1 in the Sagaing Region Hluttaw.