By European Parliamentary Research Service / October 29, 2015

Composition of regional parliaments in Myanmar/Burma

Myanmar/Burma is a highly centralised country, and regions/states have only very limited powers. They cannot elect their own governments (which are appointed by the country’s president), they have only limited financial resources (estimated at less than 5% of total public spending), and their parliaments can only legislate on a very narrow range of policy areas (listed in Schedule 2 of the Constitution), which do not include health or education.

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