{"id":45067,"date":"2026-03-31T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45067"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:58:59","slug":"myanmar-junta-chief-elected-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/myanmar-junta-chief-elected-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta chief elected vice-president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myanmar&#8217;s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected a vice-president by the lower house on Tuesday, parliament officials said, with the coup leader edging closer to becoming president and maintaining his rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lower house of elected MPs announces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as a vice-president,&#8221; lower house speaker Khin Yi said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a live broadcast, he received 247 of 260 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Three vice-presidents are expected to be chosen this week, one of whom will be elected president in a parliament-wide vote.<\/p>\n<p>Min Aung Hlaing has ruled Myanmar since 2021, when he directed a coup that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered civil war.<\/p>\n<p>After five years of hardline rule, he oversaw heavily restricted elections that criminalised protest or criticism of the vote and returned a walkover win for pro-military parties in late January.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy watchdogs have long warned that the new government will be a proxy of the military, which has ruled Myanmar for the vast majority of its post-independence history.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect Min Aung Hlaing to become president this week, after he stepped down as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and was nominated for vice-president by the lower house on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar&#8217;s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected a vice-president by the lower house on Tuesday, parliament officials said, with the coup leader edging closer to becoming president and maintaining his rule. &#8220;The lower house of elected MPs announces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as a vice-president,&#8221; lower house speaker Khin Yi said. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45068,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45067\/revisions\/45068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}