Nan Ni Ni Aye
Nan Ni Ni Aye | |
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နန်းနီနီအေး | |
![]() Nan Ni Ni Aye in 2026 | |
| 4th Second Vice President of Myanmar | |
| Assumed office 10 April 2026 | |
| President | Min Aung Hlaing |
| Preceded by | Henry Van Thio |
| Member of the Kayin State Hluttaw | |
| In office 20 March 2026 – 3 April 2026 | |
| Constituency | Hpa-An № 2 |
| Member of the Amyotha Hluttaw | |
| In office 1 February 2016 – 1 February 2021 | |
| Constituency | Kayin State № 6 |
| In office 31 January 2011 – 28 January 2016 | |
| Constituency | Kayin State № 6 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 October 1969 |
| Party | Union Solidarity and Development Party |
| Parent(s) | Saw Boe Ni (father) Nan Kyi Aye (mother) |
| Alma mater | Hap-an College Mawlamyine University University of Computer Studies, Yangon |
| Occupation | Politician |
Nan Ni Ni Aye (Burmese: နန်းနီနီအေး; born 12 October 1969) is a Burmese politician and former educator who has served as the fourth Second Vice President of Myanmar since April 2026. A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), she previously served in the Amyotha Hluttaw as the representative for Kayin State Constituency No. 6 for two consecutive terms.
Early life and education
Nan Ni Ni Aye was born on 12 October 1969 in Hpa-an, Kayin State.[1] Her father, Saw Boe Ni, was also a member of parliament from Kayin State during the era of the Revolutionary Council.[2] She studied zoology at Hap-an College and Mawlamyine University[1] and later pursued a master's degree in information science at the University of Computer Studies, Yangon.[3] Before entering politics, she served as a state school teacher and later as an assistant lecturer at her alma mater, the computer university, for a total of 17 years in public service.[2]
Political career
After the 2010 general election, Nan Ni Ni Aye became an MP in the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) for Kayin State Constituency No. 6, which comprised Hpapun Township, a position to which she was re-elected in the 2015 general election.[2] She is the chair of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in Kayin State,[4] and was a member of the Amyotha Hluttaw's Bill Committee for two terms.[3] She competed for the Kayin State Hluttaw in the 2020 general election but lost;[2] however, she won a seat in the 2025–26 general election for the State Hluttaw for Hpa-an Constituency No. 2 as a proportional representative.[5]
On 30 March 2026, Nan Ni Ni Aye was nominated for the vice presidency by the Amyotha Hluttaw[6] and was elected on 31 March with 117 votes.[7] At the presidential election held at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 3 April 2026, she was elected as the second vice-president—after Min Aung Hlaing and Nyo Saw became the president and the first vice-president respectively—[8] the first woman to hold the office in the country's history.[3]
References
- 1 2 "MP Profile". pyidaungsu.hluttaw.mm (in Burmese). Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "နန်းနီနီအေး- အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ အသွင်ပြောင်း အစိုးရက ပထမဆုံးအမျိုးသမီး ဒုသမ္မတ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 1 April 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်က ဒေါက်တာ မနမ်တူးဂျာနဲ့ နန်းနီနီအေးကို ဒုသမ္မတအမည်စာရင်း တင်သွင်း". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "မှန်းဆထားကြသည့်အတိုင်း အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင် သမ္မတလောင်း ဖြစ်လာ". Myanmar Now. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "Myanmar junta chief elected vice president, moving closer to becoming civilian leader". The Japan Times. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "Myanmar paves way for junta chief to become civilian president". France 24. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် အပါအဝင် ဒုသမ္မတသုံးဦးကို လွှတ်တော်သစ် ရွေးခြယ်တင်မြှောက်". RFA Burmese (in Burmese). 1 April 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
- ↑ "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်သမ္မတဖြစ်လာ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 3 April 2026. Retrieved 3 April 2026.
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