CIAO DATE: 01/2014
December 2013
In its latest briefing, Not a Rubber Stamp: Myanmar’s Legislature in a Time of Transition, the International Crisis Group looks at Myanmar’s Union Assembly, formed in 2011 and the first independent such body the country has seen in half a century. Both its lower and upper houses have shown some strengths and are important drivers of the transition process. However, they sometimes struggle to develop technically sound and democratically oriented laws.
Resource link: Not a Rubber Stamp: Myanmar's Legislature in a Time of Transition [PDF] - 2.6M