PARTY CHIEF REMOVED  This file photo taken on February 11 shows Myanmar’s parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann speaking to the media during a press conference in the parliament in Naypyidaw. The leader of Myanmar’s ruling party Shwe Mann was removed from his post after the intervention of the president, an official told AFP on August 13, in an unfolding party power struggle ahead of elections. AFP PHOTO
PARTY CHIEF REMOVED
This file photo taken on February 11 shows Myanmar’s parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann speaking to the media during a press conference in the parliament in Naypyidaw. The leader of Myanmar’s ruling party Shwe Mann was removed from his post after the intervention of the president, an official told AFP on August 13, in an unfolding party power struggle ahead of elections. AFP PHOTO

NAYPYIDAW: The leader of Myanmar’s ruling party has been removed from his post, an official said Thursday, after a shock police raid on party headquarters that laid bare a power struggle among the country’s key political players ahead of elections.

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