Htu May

Htoot May (, born 16 June 1979) is a Burmese politician and currently serves as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP for Rakhine State No. 11 Constituency . She is a member of Arakan National Party.

Early life and education She was born on 16 June 1979 in Kyauk Tway village, Ramree Township, Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar). Her parents are farmers and she is the youngest of five children. She was moved to Yangon in 1996 and attended at the University of Distance Education Dagon. After moving to Yangon, she faced language barriers as an ethnic Rakhine speaker but continued her studies while helping with her family's businesses. She later became involved in teaching, youth education, women's leadership training, and political activism. She was wanted to become a nurse but she was not able to attend. In addition, she learned English Language with an expatriate teacher at Buddhist monastery in Sanchaung Township. And then, she graduated from Dagon University with B.A(Philo) in 2002, D.S.E and L . L . F (USA). Htoot May founded the Htoot May Youth and Educational Foundation on 2016 and granted scholarships to six young Arakanese women to study English for nine months.

Political career In 2006, she became an active member of Arakan League for Democracy. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, she was elected as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 15985 votes and elected representative from Rakhine State No. 11 parliamentary constituency. She also serves as the secretary at the ASEAN inter-Parliamentary Assembly in the Union legislature of 16-member Joint Committee.

She later became part of the Arakan National Party after party mergers ahead of the 2015 election.