Parliamentary sketchbook: the NLD takes their seats
It had been a long wait: Almost three months since the election that swept Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to victory, but also decades of being kept on the sidelines by military control. Finally on 1 February, Myanmar’s NLD MPs took their seats in parliament as the ruling party.
The sea of politicians arriving in the grand entrance hall of the Pyithu Hluttaw, lower house, was greeted by a throng of media and observers keen to witness the historic occasion. But the star of the show disappointed the crowd and avoided them entering by a side door.
