Aung San Suu Kyi’s close aide, Htin Kyaw, has been voted Myanmar's next president by parliament.
He won with 360 of the 652 votes cast.
In second place was military-nominated Myint Swe, who received 213 votes, followed by the other NLD candidate, Henry Van Thio who got 79 votes.
They will serve as first vice-president and second vice-president respectively.
After his acceptance of the position U Htin Kyaw said, “This (victory) is achieved by the goodwill and love of the citizens. In fact, it is Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's victory.”
"ျပည္သူေတြရဲ့ ေစတနာ၊ ေမတၱာနဲ႔ ျဖစ္တာပါ။ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ့ ေအာင္ပြဲ၊ အစ္မ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ့ ေအာင္ပြဲပါ" (သမၼတသစ္ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္)...................(ျပည္ေထာင္စုလႊတ္ေတာ္က မတ္လ ၁၅ရက္တြင္ သမၼတအျဖစ္တင္ေျမွာက္လိုက္ေသာ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္အား ေမးျမန္းထားျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္)(႐ိုက္ကူး- မင္းမင္း/မဇၩိမ)
Posted by Mizzima - News in Burmese on Tuesday, March 15, 2016