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🇲🇲Myanmar Junta Chief Nominated for Presidency Myanmar's Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was nominated in the Lower House of Parliament as a candidate for vice-president on March 30, following a heavily restricted election in which pro-military parties won a landslide. Three candidates will be put forward, with one elected president; analysts consider his defeat inconceivable. Min Aung Hlaing mounted a coup five years ago, jailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering a civil war that has killed an estimated 90,000 people on all sides, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data. The election that preceded the nomination was widely condemned; parties that won 90 per cent of seats in the 2020 polls, including Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, were barred from participating after being dissolved. A former spymaster described as Min Aung Hlaing's close associate replaced him as military chief, securing a loyal ally at the head of the armed forces. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is seeking Min Aung Hlaing's arrest for crimes against humanity related to the 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya minority. #Myanmar @asianomics