Myanmar general declares himself PM, pushes back election date

Emma Connors and Andrew Tillett

Updated Aug 3, 2021 – 8.03am, first published at Aug 2, 2021 – 7.46pm

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Singapore | The Myanmar military has changed its status from administrative council to national government by installing its leader as prime minister.

General Min Aung Hlaing declared himself PM during a televised speech. He also said the country needed to create conditions to hold a “free and fair multi-party election”, while pushing back the promised election date till August 2023.

Emma Connors was South-east Asia correspondent from October 2019 until mid-2023, based in Jakarta and Singapore. She has previously edited Perspective and Opinion and has written extensively across the AFR and related titles.

Andrew Tillett writes on politics, foreign affairs, defence and security from the Canberra press gallery.