The caretaker government of Myanmar ( my, အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရ), officially the Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရ), is the

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under the current

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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, the

State Administration Council The State Administration Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ; abbreviated SAC or နစက) is the military junta currently governing Myanmar, established by Comm ...

. It replaced the

Management Committee of the State Administration Council The caretaker government of Myanmar ( my, အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရ), officially the Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာ� ...

on 1 August 2021. The committee was formed by the

after

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. The government is composed of military officers and civilians. The cabinet is led by prime minister,

Min Aung Hlaing Min Aung Hlaing ( my, မင်းအောင်လှိုင် abbreviated: MAL ; born 3 July 1956) also known as Alaungsithu is a Burmese politician and army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Coun ...

, the commander-in-chief of Defence Services.

Background

The 2021 coup came in the aftermath of the

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on 8 November 2020, in which the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanm ...

won 396 out of 476 seats in

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, an even larger margin of victory compared to that in the 2015 election. The military's proxy party, the

Union Solidarity and Development Party The Union Solidarity and Development Party ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုကြံ့ခိုင်ရေးနှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးပါတီ; abbr. USDP) is a political party in Myanmar, registered on ...

, won only 33 seats. The army disputed the results, claiming that the vote was fraudulent. The coup attempt had been rumored for several days, prompting statements of concern from Western powers such as

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, the

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, and

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. On the morning of 1 February 2021,

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, State Counsellor

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, as well as several

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, State and Region Chief Ministers, State and Region Ministers, and elected MPs, were detained by the military. Since then, the

has governed the country. The military deposed the elected civilian government and General Min Aung Hlaing, the

commander-in-chief of Defence Services The commander-in-chief of Defence Services () is the commanding officer of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar. Since a state of emergency was declared following the 2021 military coup d'état, the commander-in-chief has been the highest ...

, announced the formation of a caretaker government with himself as prime minister and extended military rule through 2023, state media reported on 1 August 2021. This caretaker government is the second in Burmese history since independence.

Members

The Provisional Government comprises the following persons: # State Prime Minister (also serves as the

Chairman of the State Administration Council The chairman of the State Administration Council ( my, နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) is the head of Myanmar's ruling military junta, established in th ...

) # Deputy Prime Minister (also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council) #

(29 ministers, as of 1 September 2021) # Attorney General of the Union (also serves as the Union Minister for Legal Affairs), # Permanent Secretary, Office of the Provisional Government

Head and deputy head

Cabinet

References

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