Min Aung Hlaing elected Myanmar president despite international criticism
Myanmar Crisis
Former chief of military regime wins parliamentary vote by a landslide
Myanmar’s military representatives in parliament and other lawmakers arrive for a session of the assembly in the capital, Naypyidaw, on April 3 to elect the new president. © AP
YANGON — Myanmar’s military-dominated parliament on Friday elected regime leader Min Aung Hlaing as the country’s 11th president, completing a choreographed transition to nominally civilian rule five years after the armed forces seized power.
