Myanmar: historic scenes in national parliament

Myanmar transitions to democracy
The first democratically-elected government for 50 years


Military retain control of key ministries



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Hundreds of deputies are voting in Myanmar’s first democratically-elected government for more than 50 years.


#Myanmar's new parliament starts 1st session, elects speaker of lower house https://t.co/mrJXf0×9fI pic.twitter.com/8GmthCgMQ0— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) February 1, 2016




New era dawns as Suu Kyi's party strides into Myanmar parliament https://t.co/RwRwAA7pjl pic.twitter.com/ayAeStJ1Qp— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 1, 2016



The majority of those gathered are from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 80% of the seats in the election in November.



Myanmar parliament begins new session as question of presidency lingershttps://t.co/r1WvjMGIde pic.twitter.com/tYodh00WJt— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 1, 2016



However, a quarter of seats are reserved f