Essay About Myanmar Government System

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Myanmar government system is the Parliamentary Government. The president is the head of state and the power is shared through three branches of government which are the Executive Branch, the Legislature Branch and the judicial branch.
In the Executive branch of or the presidency, the President is elected by the parliament from three Vice President of different parliament house which are the upper house, the lower house and military member parliament each nominate one Vice President. He or she can serves for 5 years term. Moreover, the president has the power to appoint the cabinet, government ministers and nominated judge. He or she has responsible for other tasks such as appointing Union Ministers, granting pardons and granting amnesty, …show more content…

It has two legislative bodies which are the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each of them has different responsibilities. The House of Representative is known as the “lower house of parliament”. It carries 400 members who elected directly from the single- member districts. And 100 members selected from party lists who receive the largest votes from the election. Moreover, the Senate is known as the "upper house of Parliament". It comprises of 200 members who are elected from Changwat (provincial) districts, but without any political party affiliation. The cabinet can proposed law and sent to The House of Representatives. The House of Representatives will consider and if they approve that proposed bill, they sent it to Senate for consideration. Then, if the Senate approves the bill as submitted to it, and each house approves the bill on the third consideration by that house, the bill will be submitted to the Prime Minister for forwarding to the King for his approval. However, if the Senate does not agree to the bill as proposed by the House of Representatives, it may amend the bill, and return the it to the House of Representatives for consideration. If the House does not agree with the amendment, the two bodies appoint a committee to try to resolve the differences. If this is not possible, the House of Representatives may enact the bill, without the Senate's amendments, after a lengthy period of time (six months or more) has passed. It is then submitted, through the Prime Minister, to the King, for his

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