{"id":34656,"date":"2021-08-01T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/01\/myanmars-military-ruler-promises-multi-party-elections"},"modified":"2021-08-02T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:35:09","slug":"myanmar-military-ruler-extends-coup-with-promise-of-elections-in-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34656","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta leader declares himself PM as election timeline stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after seizing power, Min Aung Hlaing extends coup with promise of elections in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military leader has declared himself prime minister and said he will lead the country under the nation\u2019s state of emergency until elections are held in two years\u2019 time \u2013 vastly extending the timeline given when the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must create conditions to hold a free and fair multiparty general election,\u201d Gen Min Aung Hlaing said on Sunday during a recorded televised address. \u201cWe have to make preparations. I pledge to hold the multiparty general election without fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/01\/myanmars-military-ruler-promises-multi-party-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after seizing power, Min Aung Hlaing extends coup with promise of elections in 2023Myanmar\u2019s military leader has declared himself prime minister and said he will lead the country under the nation\u2019s state of emergency until elections are held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34671,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34656\/revisions\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}