Overview
- Myanmar’s legislature elected the junta leader president Friday with 429 of 584 votes in a chamber dominated by pro‑military parties.
- He led a 2021 coup that removed Aung San Suu Kyi, and the country has since been locked in a widening civil war.
- The junta’s December–January elections skipped large rebel‑held areas and produced a pro‑military sweep that many governments and a UN expert said was a façade of legitimacy.
- To take the post, he gave up his commander‑in‑chief role as required by the constitution, and loyalist Ye Win Oo, a former military intelligence chief, took charge of the army.
- Fighting and repression have killed more than 90,000 people and displaced about 3.7 million, according to ACLED and the UN.