{"id":95823,"date":"2026-04-03T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=95823"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:21:57","slug":"myanmar-junta-chief-min-aung-hlaing-elected-president-by-pro-military-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/myanmar-junta-chief-min-aung-hlaing-elected-president-by-pro-military-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing elected president by pro-military parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country\u2019s president, formalizing his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old general orchestrated a 2021 coup against the administration of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and placed her under arrest, sparking widespread protests that morphed into nationwide armed resistance against the junta.<\/p>\n<p>The transition from top general to civilian president follows a lopsided election in December and January that was \u200cwon in \u200ca landslide by an army-backed party and derided by critics and Western \u200cgovernments \u2060as a sham \u2060to perpetuate military rule behind a veneer of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>In a live broadcast of the vote count in a parliament dominated by the election-winning Union Solidarity and Development Party and the military\u2019s quota of appointed armed forces legislators, former commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing comfortably passed the threshold required to win the presidential vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country\u2019s president, formalizing his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government. The 69-year-old general orchestrated a 2021 coup against the administration of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95836,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95823\/revisions\/95836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}