Aung Naing Thu

Police Major General (Retd.)
Aung Naing Thu
Police Major General (Retd.) Aung Naing Thu
အောင်နိုင်သူ
	Aung Naing Thu, Chief Minister of Yangon Region (April 2026)
Chief Minister of Yangon Region
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 April 2026
Appointed by	Min Aung Hlaing
President	Min Aung Hlaing
Preceded by	Soe Thein
Member of the Yangon Region Hluttaw
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; April 2026
Preceded by	Tin Win (USDP)
Constituency	Coco Islands Township No. 1
Personal details
Born	Aung Naing Thu; December 24, 1963 (age 62); Mandalay, Myanmar
Party	Union Solidarity and Development Party
Spouse	Hnin Hnin Aye
Children	4
Parent(s)	Than Tin Aung (father); Tin Nwel Yee (mother)
Education	Mandalay University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Police Officer (Retired)
Awards	Ye Thurein Medal; Management Excellence Medal (1st Class); Management Excellence Medal (3rd Class);

Aung Naing Thu (အောင်နိုင်သူ ; born 24 December 1963) is a Burmese politician and retired police officer currently serving as the Chief Minister of Yangon Region . A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), he was elected as a representative for Coco Islands Township No. 1 in the Yangon Region Hluttaw following the 2025–2026 general election.

Early life and education

Aung Naing Thu was born on 24 December 1963 in Mandalay, Myanmar. He graduated from Mandalay University with a Master of Arts degree in Geography.

Police career

Aung Naing Thu served in the Myanmar Police Force, reaching the rank of Police Major General. He served as the Deputy Chief of Police (2). In September 2025, he was retired from the police force to enter politics as a candidate for the Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Political career

In the 2025–2026 general election, he joined the Union Solidarity and Development Party and contested the Coco Islands Township seat for the Yangon Region Hluttaw, replacing the former representative Tin Win.

Election results

He won the constituency with 1,445 votes, accounting for 94.82% of the total votes cast. The Coco Islands constituency, which houses a naval base and a significant number of military-affiliated voters, has been noted for its controlled voting process.

Chief Minister of Yangon Region

On 6 April 2026, during the third session of the Yangon Region Hluttaw, Aung Naing Thu was proposed as the candidate for the region's Chief Minister. He formally assumed office on 10 April 2026. Following his appointment, he has been involved in overseeing the administrative and electoral processes in Yangon Region.

Personal life

He is married to Hnin Hnin Aye and has four children.^{[citation needed]}

References

[eleven-1] "ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး ၁၆ မြို့နယ်အနက် ၁၅ မြို့နယ်တွင် နိုင်ငံတော်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဦးညိုစော၊ ဒုတိယရဲချုပ်(ငြိမ်း)ဦးအောင်နိုင်သူအပါအဝင် ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးပါတီကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းများ အနိုင်ရရှိထား". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 April 2026.

[ykt-2] "ဒုတိယရဲချုပ် ၁ ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ် တင်ကိုကိုနှင့် ဒုတိယရဲချုပ် ၂ ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ် အောင်နိုင်သူတို့ကို ရာထူးတာဝန်မှ အနားပေးပြီး ကြံ့ဖွတ်ပါတီမှတစ်ဆင့် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဝင်ခိုင်း". YKT News (in Burmese). 22 September 2025.

[narinjara-3] "ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးပါတီသို့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်တပ်က ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးအဆင့်မှ အောက်ခြေအဆင့်ထိ အမတ်လောင်း ၅ဝဝ ခန့်၏စာရင်းပေးပို့". Narinjara News (in Burmese). Retrieved 6 April 2026.

[irrawaddy-4] "Low Turnout, Intimidation and Attacks Mark Phase 2 of Myanmar Junta's Election". The Irrawaddy. 11 January 2026.

[mitv-5] "Election: Yangon Chief Minister oversees voting process". Myanmar International TV (MITV). Retrieved 21 April 2026.

[bbc-6] "ရဲချုပ်နဲ့ ဒုရဲချုပ် တို့ကို ရာထူးအဆင့်တိုးမြှင့်". BBC News Burmese (in Burmese). Retrieved 6 April 2026.