Mayor of Yangon

Mayor of the City of Yangon
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ဝန်
Incumbent
Maung Maung Soe
since 5 April 2016
Style His/Her Excellency
Member of Yangon City Development Committee
Nominator Chief Minister of Yangon Region
Appointer President of Myanmar
Term length 5 years

The Mayor of Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ဝန်) is the head of Yangon's government. The mayor concurrently serves as the chairman of the Yangon City Development Committee.[1]

History

The office of the mayor and the municipal government of Rangoon were established by the British colonial government in 1874 per the Act of 1874, Article 7. The charter of the municipal government was changed per the Burma Act of 1898, and again updated per the City of Rangoon Municipal Act of August 1922.[2]

List

The following is a list of mayors of Yangon, Myanmar.

No. Mayor Term start Term end
Ne Myo Nawrahta[3] 1757 ?
Raghbir Singh Dugal[3] ? ?
Pa Thein
David Sophaer
Charles Haswell Campagnac
Richard Rushall 1930 19??
Ba Win[4] 1939 19??
Tin Pe[5] 1985 1986
Aung Khin 1986 1988
Ko Lay 1988 2003
Aung Thein Lin 2003 2011
Hla Myint 2011 2016
Maung Maung Soe 2016

References

  1. ↑ "The City of Yangon Development Law" (PDF). The State Law and Order Restoration Council. 14 May 1990. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Myanma Swezon Kyan Vol. 11 1970: 271
  3. 1 2 Letwe Nawrahta and Twinthin Taikwun (c. 1770). Hla Thamein, ed. Alaungpaya Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (1961 ed.). Ministry of Culture, Union of Burma. p. 222.
  4. ↑ "Rotary Returns to Rangoon". The Rotarian. Rotary International. 69 (3): 23. Sep 1946. ISSN 0035-838X.
  5. ↑ "History of Yangon". yangoncity.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-25. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
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