Myanmar’s military leader plans election two years after seizing power

Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, inspects officers during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of Independence Day in Naypyitaw (Aung Shine Oo/AP)

Myanmar’s ruling military leader Min Aung Hlaing has detailed plans for an election later this year and called for national unity as he led a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain.

He urged other nations and international organisations, as well as his country’s citizens, to support “the genuine, discipline-flourishing multiparty democratic system” – a concept the ruling military has defined as its goal.