Why does military still keep 25% of the seats Myanmar parliament?

Name: Why does military still keep 25% of the seats Myanmar parliament?
Uploaded: 2016-02-01T06:30:04.000Z
Duration: 1 min 50 s
Description: Myanmar's new session of parliament has begun, dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD. Jonah Fisher went to speak to the MPs as they arrived.

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Myanmar's parliament is meeting for the first time since Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a landslide victory last year.

Jonah Fisher went to meet some of the new MPs and asked the military representatives - who still keep 25% of the seats - why they are needed in parliament at all.

Asia

1 February 2016