緬甸執政黨主席被免職

Myanmar’s president is huddling with government ministers Thursday amid an apparent purge of the leadership of the country’s governing party.

President Thein Sein has the upper hand, according to one of his officials.

Zaw Htay, director of the president’s office told AFP, said that the president had made the move to remove party chairman Shwe Mann, who is also parliament speaker.

Officials of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told reporters that Shwe Mann has been ousted from his top party post and the USDP secretary general, Maung Maung Thein, was also removed.

Shwe Mann was widely perceived as being more politically accommodating with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi than other more hardline members of his party.

The new chief of the party is vice chairman Htay Oo, according to Reuters, attributing this to a senior party official.甸總統吳登盛星期四召集政府部長們開會，目前緬甸執政黨高層看來正在進行一場清洗。

緬甸總統辦公室副主任吳卓鐵說，吳登盛控制着局面。

吳卓鐵對法新社說，吳登盛罷免了執政黨主席瑞曼的職務。瑞曼也是緬甸議會議長。

緬甸聯邦團結發展黨的官員對記者說，瑞曼已被免除黨內最高職務，該黨祕書長貌貌登也被免職。

人們廣泛認爲，瑞曼與本黨強硬派成員相比，在政治上更容忍反對派領袖昂山素季。

路透社援引緬甸聯邦團結發展黨一名高層人士的話說，該黨副主席泰歐接任主席職務。