With President U Thein Sein were members of his cabinet: U Wunna Maung Lwin, minister of foreign affairs;
U Soe Maung, minister for the president's office no. 2; U Myint Hlaing, minister for agriculture and irrigation; U Zayar Aung, minister for energy; U Myat Myat Ohnn Khin, minister for social welfare and resettlement; Hla Htay Win, chief of the general staff (army, navy, and air force), Ministry of Defense General; U Ye Htut, deputy minister for information; Win Myint, deputy minister for the president's office no. 1; Than Aung, deputy minister for health; and U Ye Myint Aung, ambassador of Myanmar to the Philippines.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor
U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.