Chairman of the State Administration Council | |
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နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ | |
since 2 February 2021 | |
State Administration Council | |
Type | Military junta leader |
Abbreviation | SAC Chairman |
Reports to | Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services |
Residence | Presidential Palace[1] |
Seat | Naypyidaw |
Appointer | Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services[2] exercising emergency powers |
Term length | Concurrent with the state of emergency |
Constituting instrument | CinCDS Order No (9/2021)[2] |
Precursor | State Counsellor |
Formation | 2 February 2021 |
First holder | Min Aung Hlaing |
Deputy | Vice Chairman |
Myanmar portal |
The chairman of the State Administration Council (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) is the head of Myanmar's ruling military junta, established in the 2021 coup d'état. Min Aung Hlaing is the current holder of the office, and also serves as the prime minister of the Provisional Government.[3][4][5][6]
Right after the coup, [Min Aung Hlaing] moved straight into the Presidential Residence.