March 21, 2016
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NLD PREVAILS. Htin Kyaw, left, the newly elected president of Myanmar, walks with National League for
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The country’s parliament
elected Htin Kyaw as the new president in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of
Suu Kyi into government. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
Htin Kyaw wins historic president
vote in Myanmar parliament
By Esther Htusan
The Associated Pres
AYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myan-
mar’s parliament has elected Htin
Kyaw
as
Myanmar’s
new
president, a watershed moment that
ushers the longtime opposition party of
Aung San Suu Kyi into government.
The 70-year-old Htin Kyaw, a longtime
confidant of Suu Kyi, will take office
April 1 to become Myanmar’s first demo-
cratically elected leader after more than
half a century of military rule.
Htin Kyaw secured 360 votes from
among 652 ballots cast in the bicameral
parliament, where the vote count was read
N
MAN VS. MACHINE. South Korean professional
Go player Lee Sedol reviews the match after winning
the fourth game of the Google DeepMind Challenge
Match against Google’s artificial-intelligence program,
AlphaGo, in Seoul, South Korea, on March 13, 2016.
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Human Go champ says
machine not superior
despite 1:4 defeat
Continued from page 2
As for Go, other top players are bracing
themselves.
Chinese world Go champion Ke Jie said
it was just a matter of time before top Go
players like himself would be overtaken by
artificial intelligence.
“It is very hard for Go players at my level
to improve even a little bit, whereas
AlphaGo has hundreds of computers to
help it improve and can play hundreds of
practice matches a day,” Ke said.
“It does not seem like a good thing for we
professional Go players, but the match
played a very good role in promoting Go,”
Ke said.
AP videojournalist Peng Peng in
Beijing contributed to this report.
aloud and announced by a parliament
official before a formal announcement.
“I hereby announce the president of
Myanmar is Htin Kyaw, as he won the
majority of votes,” said speaker Mann Win
Khaing Than.
The military’s nominee, Myint Swe, won
213 votes and will become the first vice
president. Htin Kyaw’s running mate from
the National League for Democracy (NLD)
party, Henry Van Tio, won 79 votes and
will take the post of second vice president.
A beaming Suu Kyi sat in the front row
clapping as the chamber erupted in
applause when the session ended. She
smiled but did not comment as she exited,
leaving the new president to deliver the
first reaction.
“This is a victory for the people of this
country,” Htin Kyaw said in a brief
comment to reporters.
Suu Kyi led her National League for
Democracy party to a sweeping victory in
November 8 elections, a reflection of the
widespread public support she earned
during her decades-long struggle for
democracy in Myanmar which was ruled
for half a century by a military junta.
The Nobel laureate and longtime
political
prisoner
is
the
party’s
unquestionable leader but is blocked from
becoming president because of a
constitutional clause that excludes anyone
with a foreign spouse or children. Suu
Kyi’s two sons are British, as was her late
husband. The clause is widely seen as
having been written by the military with
Suu Kyi in mind.
To assume the top post in her place, the
NLD nominated Suu Kyi’s trusted friend
and adviser Htin Kyaw, the son of a
national poet and the son-in-law of a
founding member of the country’s pro-
democracy movement.
Myanmar’s electoral system requires
that the president be chosen from
candidates put forward by each of the two
houses of parliament, and a third nominee
from the military, which retains a quarter
of the legislative seats.
Myint Swe is seen as a close ally of
former junta leader Than Shwe and
remains on a U.S. State Department
blacklist that bars American companies
from doing business with several tycoons
and senior military figures connected with
the former junta.
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