Myanmar New Government to Cut Number of Ministries

YANGON, March 5 ( Xinhua) — Myanmar's new government, which is to take office at the end of this month, will cut the number of ministries leaving 23 only from the previous 36, sources with the election-winning opposition party said Saturday.

Merging some ministries to one for instance, the National League for Democracy (NLD) said it will not reduce the number of ministries' employees but will make use of them to reinforce other ministries in need.

The party insisted that chief ministers of all 14 regions and states are to be assigned with elected NLD parliament representatives only. Of them, the NLD disclosed for the first time that it has nominated U Nyi Pu, a member of its central executive committee, to take up the post of Chief Minister of Rakhine state.

Of the new government cabinet members, the NLD will take up 30 to 40 percent only and the rest will come from other parties and outside experts, the sources added.

Official handover of the duties of the head of state will be carried out at the parliament.

Senior leadership of the NLD disclosed that the list of the new government cabinet will be announced on Sunday, four days before presidential election takes place next Thursday.

The parliament is to set three groups for nominating one candidate each for vice presidential run first and the one, who wins the most number of votes, will take the presidency, while the remaining two be vice presidents.

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