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Khin Maung Oo
ခင်မောင်ဦး
Chief Minister of Kayah State
In office
March 2011 – 30 March 2016
Preceded byOffice Established
Succeeded byL Phaung Sho
Representative of Kayah State Hluttaw
In office
2011 – 30 March 2016
Preceded byOffice established
ConstituencyBawlakhe Township No. 1
Personal details
BornBurma
Political partyUnion Solidarity and Development Party

Khin Maung Oo (Burmese: ခင်မောင်ဦး; also known as Bu Reh) was the Chief Minister of Kayah State, Myanmar from 2011 to 2016.[1]

A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), he was elected to represent Bawlakhe Township Constituency No. 1 as a Kayah State Hluttaw representative in the 2010 Burmese general election.[2]

On 28 June 2015, he resigned from the USDP, along with the Kayah State ministers for transportation, electric power, industry, and Bamar ethnic affairs.[3] On 13 July 2015, the USDP released a statement that Khin Maung Oo had in fact been sacked for “disturbing party unity” and violating the party's policy for the 2015 Burmese general election.[3] The conflict was related to disagreements with the national headquarters of USDP regarding the permission for 2 government ministers, Aung Min and Soe Thein, to contest safe seats in Kayah State for the elections.[4] The seats they had contested in the 2010 Burmese general election were now occupied by members of the National League for Democracy and considered more challenging to win.[4]

Khin Maung Oo's father, Kyaw Din, is a former chairman of the Karenni State People's Council during the socialist era.[5]

References

  1. ^ "NOMINATIONS OF CHIEF MINISTERS FOR REGIONS AND STATES" (PDF). Euro-Burma Office. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Karenni State MPs". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ^ a b Wa Lone (16 July 2015). "USDP chief and ministers resign in Kayah State". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b Ei Ei Toe Lwin (17 July 2015). "USDP rejects requests for safe seats". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ^ Zay Thu (27 August 2014). "ဒီမိုကရေစီ အစိုးရတွင်လည်း မဆလလူကြီးများ၏ သားသမီးများသာ ရာထူးကြီးများ ရယူထား". Tomorrow (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 July 2015.