Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who led a coup against Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government, has become the country's president after winning a parliamentary vote on Friday.
The presidential vote formalised his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted the Nobel laureate’s elected government in 2021, which plunged the Southeast Asian country into a civil war. The move marks a nominal return to an elected government but is widely considered to be an effort to keep the army in power.
