Lwin Ko Latt

Lwin Ko Latt (Burmese: လွင်ကိုလတ်) is a Burmese activist and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from Thanlyin Township from 2016 until his removal from office in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. He is a member of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.

In this Burmese name, the given name is Lwin Ko Latt. There is no family name.
Lwin Ko Latt
လွင်ကိုလတ်
Member of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Assumed office
5 February 2021
Member of the Pyithu Hluttaw
In office
1 February 2016 – 1 February 2021
ConstituencyThanlyin Township
Majority70,380[1]
Personal details
Born (1976-01-20) 20 January 1976[2]
Rangoon, Myanmar
Political partyNational League for Democracy
OccupationActivist
Politician

Political career

In the 2015 Myanmar general election, Lwin Ko Latt contested in Thanlyin Township constituency for Pyithu Hluttaw, from National League for Democracy, and won a seat by 70,380 votes.[1][3]

In the 2020 Myanmar general election, he was re-elected as a MP for Thanlyin Township but was not allowed to assume his seat due to the military coup d'état.[4][5]

On 5 February 2021, in the aftermath of 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he became a member of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.[6][7]

On 2 March 2021, CRPH named him Acting Minister of the Office of the President and Acting Minister of the Union Government Office.[8][9][10][11]

References
  1. "၂၀၁၅ခုနှစ် အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ". Union Election Commission.
  2. "Myanmar Election 2020". myanmarelection2020.com.
  3. "ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးလွင်ကိုလတ်နဲ့ မေးမြန်းချက်". Radio Free Asia.
  4. "Amid Coup, Myanmar's NLD Lawmakers Form Committee to Serve as Legitimate Parliament". The Irrawaddy. 8 February 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  5. "ခေတ္တပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများကို CRPH က ခန့်အပ်". 2 March 2021.
  6. "NLD အမတ် ၁၅ ဦးပါ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီဖွဲ့စည်း". VOA (in Burmese). 5 February 2021.
  7. "ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီက အစိုးရဖွဲ့ဖို့ပြင်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  8. "Appointment of Acting Union Ministers". Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. 2 March 2021.
  9. "Defying Military Regime, Myanmar's CRPH Names Four Acting Ministers". The Irrawaddy. 2 March 2021.
  10. "CRPH က ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးတွေ စတင်ခန့်အပ်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  11. "ခေတ္တပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ၄ ဦး CRPH ခန့်အပ်". VOA (in Burmese).
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