Myanmar regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was nominated by a lawmaker on Monday for a parliamentary vote that will select the new president of the war-torn Southeast Asian nation, as the powerful veteran general seeks a political role.
Min Aung Hlaing, who currently also serves as Myanmar’s commander-in-chief, was one of two people named as vice-presidential candidates by lawmakers from the country’s newly-convened lower house of parliament.
The country’s upper house will nominate another vice-presidential candidate, with a president selected from the three in a subsequent bicameral vote, the date of which has not been announced.
The move comes after a controversial election held amid raging conflict in December and January, won by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) but widely derided as a sham by the U.N. and many Western countries.
REUTERS
