Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (left) hands over a flag to General Ye Win Oo, his successor as Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s armed forces, during a ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw, on March 30, 2026. (Photo: Myanmar Military True News Information Team via Reuters)​Myanmar’s parliament will hold a bicameral vote to ​elect a president ‌on Friday, house speaker Aung Lin Dwe said on Thursday, with former military chief and junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in the ​running for ⁠the position. On the same day, a member of the lower house of parliament nominated him as a vice-presidential candidate, alongside two other contenders put forward ​by the upper house and a bloc of military representatives in parliament. A joint meeting ​of ‌both houses, including the military-appointed lawmakers, will be held at 10am on ​Friday ⁠to elect a president from among those three vice-presidential candidates. because almost all opposition parties had been disqualified, the vote was widely derided as a sham by ‌the United Nations ⁠and many Western countries.

Source: Bangkok Post April 02, 2026 05:50 UTC