Hundreds of MPs have begun a parliamentary session in Myanmar to see in the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years.But a quarter of all seats are reserved for the military, which also retains control of key ministries.
One of the new parliament’s first jobs will be to choose a new president.It is an assembly dominated by MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 80% of contested seats in November’s poll.
