General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s junta chief, has taken the title of prime minister as head of a “caretaker” government, six months after the military seized power in a coup.
The military commander also promised to lift the country’s state of emergency and hold elections by 2023, in a move anti-coup activists said was meant to lend the regime a veneer of legitimacy internationally at a time when it was struggling with surging Covid-19 cases and stubborn popular resistance to its rule.
“In order to perform the country’s duties fast, easily and effectively, the State Administration Council has been reformed as caretaker government of Myanmar,” the state-run Myawaddy TV said on Sunday in comments reported by Reuters.
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