Myint Naing
Myint Naing is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner who currently serves as Chief Minister of Sagaing Region and previously served as an Amyotha Hluttaw member of parliament for Sagaing Region Constituency № 3. In the 1990 Burmese general election, he was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 30,628, but was never allowed to assume his seat.
Myint Naing graduated with a medical degree from the Mandalay Institute of Medicine in 1981.
He was arrested in September 1990 and sentenced to 25 years under the Burmese Penal Code's Article 122.
He actively took part together with his colleagues in the famous Saffron Revolution.
In 2012, he was elected as Member of House of Nationalities through a by-election.
In the 2015 general election, Myint Naing ran for Sagaing Region Hluttaw and was elected again as an MP.
Later, he was appointed as Chief Minister of Sagaing Region by the President of Myanmar with the recommendation of Sagaing Region Hluttaw.
