The Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar[1] (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင်[2]), is the provisional government of Myanmar under the current military junta, the State Administration Council. On 1 August 2021, it replaced the Management Committee of the State Administration Council, which had been in place since 19 February 2021, following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[2][3][4] Some ministers were appointed by Min Aung Hlaing immediately following the coup on 1 February, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services exercising emergency powers.[5]
Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Management Committee of the State Administration Council | |
|---|---|
 Cabinet of Myanmar | |
| 2021–present | |
_(cropped_3).jpg) Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing | |
| Date formed | 1 February 2021 |
| People and organisations | |
| President | Myint Swe (acting, 2021-2024) Min Aung Hlaing (acting, 2024-present) |
| Prime Minister | Min Aung Hlaing |
| Prime Minister's history |
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| Deputy Prime Minister | Soe Win, Mya Tun Oo, Tin Aung San, Soe Htut, Win Shein, and Than Swe |
| Member parties | |
| Status in legislature | Legislature dissolved |
| History | |
| Incoming formation | 2021 Myanmar coup d'état |
| Predecessor | Win Myint's Cabinet |
Due to the state of emergency, the cabinet is led by Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing rather than Acting President Myint Swe, despite the president being the constitutional head of government.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Background
editThe 2021 coup came in the aftermath of the general election on 8 November 2020, in which the National League for Democracy won 396 out of 476 seats in parliament, an even larger margin of victory compared to that in the 2015 election. The military's proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, 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 France, the United States, and Australia.[12]
On the morning of 1 February 2021, President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as several Union Ministers, State and Region Chief Ministers, State and Region Ministers, and elected MPs, were detained by the military.[13] Since then, the State Administration Council has governed the country.[9] The military deposed the elected civilian government and General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of Defence Services, 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.[10][8]
This caretaker government is the second in Burmese history since independence.[10]
Government Reshuffle
editFebruary 2023 reshuffle
editAugust 2023 reshuffle
edit- On 25 September 2022, Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Union Government Office 1 Lt-Gen Soe Htut was discharged to original military duties on 25 September 2023 under Order 86/2023.
- Union Minister for Commerce U Aung Naing Oo was appointed as Union Minister for Union Government Office 1 under Order 87/2023.
- U Tun Ohn was appointed Union Minister for Commerce under Order 88/2023.
- Under Order 89/2023, Union Election Commission member U Bran Shaung and Deputy Minister for Commerce U Nyunt Aung allowed to retire from duties.
- Under Order 90/2023, U Khin Aung was appointed member of the Union Election Commission.
- Under Order 91/2023, SAC appointed U Lwin Oo as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and U Min Min as Deputy Minister for Commerce.
Cabinet
editThe Provisional Government comprises the following persons:[1]
- State Prime Minister (also serves as the Chairman of the State Administration Council)
- Deputy Prime Minister (also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council)
- Union Ministers (29 ministers, as of 1 September 2021)
- Attorney General of the Union (also serves as the Union Minister for Legal Affairs[15]),
- Permanent Secretary, Office of the Provisional Government
Head and deputy head
edit| Office | Name | Term in office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||
| Chairman of the State Administration Council | Min Aung Hlaing | 2 February 2021 | Incumbent | 1385 |
| Acting President of Myanmar | 22 July 2024 | 119 | ||
| Prime Minister of Myanmar | 1 August 2021 | 1205 | ||
| Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council | Soe Win | 2 February 2021 | 1385 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar | 1 August 2021 | 1205 | ||
| Mya Tun Oo | 1 February 2023[16] | 656 | ||
| Tin Aung San | ||||
| Win Shein | ||||
| Soe Htut | 25 September 2023[17] | 236 | ||
Union Ministers
edit| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of Defence | General Mya Tun Oo | 1 February 2021 | 3 August 2023 | Tatmadaw | |
Admiral Tin Aung San | 3 August 2023[18] | Incumbent | Tatmadaw | ||
| Minister of Home Affairs | Lieutenant General Soe Htut | 1 February 2021 | 3 August 2023 | Tatmadaw | |
| 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | Tatmadaw | |||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | 1 February 2021 | 1 February 2023 | USDP | ||
| 1 February 2023[19] | Incumbent | ||||
| Minister of Union Government Office (1) | Lieutenant General Soe Htut | 10 February 2020 | 11 May 2021 | Tatmadaw | |
Lieutenant General Yar Pyae | 11 May 2021 | 3 August 2023 | Tatmadaw | ||
Lieutenant General Soe Htut[18] | 3 August 2023 | 24 September 2023 | Tatmadaw | ||
| 25 September 2023 | 27 May 2024 | ||||
| Minister of Union Government Office (2) | 1 August 2021 | 19 August 2022 | Independent | ||
Ko Ko Naing | 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Border Affairs | Lieutenant General Tun Tun Naung | 1 February 2021 | Incumbent | Tatmadaw | |
| Minister of Planning and Finance | 1 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations | 1 February 2021 | 19 August 2022 | Independent | ||
| 19 August 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | |||
| Minister of International Cooperation | 1 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs[21] | 2 February 2021 and 30 August 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Information | 1 February 2021 | 1 August 2021 | Independent | ||
| 1 August 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |||
| Minister of Religious Affairs and Culture | Ko Ko | 1 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation | Tin Htut Oo | 3 February 2021 | 1 February 2023 | Independent | |
Min Naung[19] | 1 February 2023 | Incumbent | |||
| Minister of Cooperative and Rural Development[22] | Hla Moe | 24 June 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Transport and Communications | Admiral Tin Aung San | 3 February 2021 | 3 August 2023 | Tatmadaw | |
General Mya Tun Oo[18] | 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | Tatmadaw | ||
| Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation | Khin Maung Yee | 2 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Electric Power | Thaung Han | 2 May 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Energy | Thaung Han | 2 May 2022 | 5 August 2022 | Independent | |
Myo Myint Oo | 5 August 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Industry | 22 May 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Immigration and Population (former MOLIP) | 1 August 2021 | 19 August 2022 | USDP | ||
Myint Kyaing[20] | 19 August 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Labour (former MOLIP) | 1 February 2021 | 19 August 2022[20] | Independent | ||
Dr Pwint San | 19 August 2022 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Commerce | 3 February 2021 | 19 August 2022 | Independent | ||
| 19 August 2022 | 24 September 2023 | Independent | |||
Tun Ohn | 25 September 2023 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Education | 16 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Science and Technology[23] | Myo Thein Kyaw[24] | 17 June 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Health (former Health and Sports[25]) | Thet Khaing Win | 1 February 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs[25] | Min Thein Zan[26] | 1 August 2021 | Incumbent | Independent | |
| Minister of Construction | Shwe Lay | 2 February 2021 | 1 February 2023 | Independent | |
Myo Thant | 1 February 2023[19] | Incumbent | |||
| Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement | 4 February 2021 | 2 August 2023 | PPP | ||
Dr Soe Win | 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | Independent | ||
| Minister of Hotels and Tourism | 7 February 2021 | 5 August 2021 | Independent | ||
| 5 August 2021 | 1 February 2023 | Independent | |||
Aung Thaw | 1 February 2023[19] | 2 August 2023 | Independent | ||
| 3 August 2023 | Incumbent | PPP | |||
| Minister of Ethnic Affairs | Saw Tun Aung Myint | 3 February 2021 | 1 February 2023 | Independent | |
Jeng Phang Naw Taung | 1 February 2023[19] | Incumbent | |||
| Minister of Electricity and Energy (dissolved) | Aung Than Oo | 8 February 2021 | 2 May 2022[27] | Independent | |
References
edit- ^ a b "Order No 152/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. MNA. 2 August 2021. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ a b "နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေး ကော်မတီကို အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အဖြစ် ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း" (in Burmese). ELEVEN MEDIA GROUP. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၊ နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ၊ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးကော်မတီဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း၊ အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၉/၂၀၂၁)". ပြည်ထောင်စုရှေ့နေချုပ်ရုံ၊ မြန်မာဥပဒေသတင်းအချက်အလက်စနစ် (in Burmese). 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021.
- ^ Aung Lin Dwe (1 August 2021). "State Administration Council Order No 152/2021" (PDF). Global New Light of Myanmar. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Min Aung Hlaing (1 February 2021). "Office of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Order No (6/2021)" (PDF). Global New Light of Myanmar. p. 5. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
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- ^ "သမ္မတ၊အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်နှင့် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်များအပါအဝင် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့တာဝန်ရှိသူများ ထိန်းသိမ်းခံရ..." 1 February 2021.
- ^ "State Administration Council issues seven orders on reconstitution of SAC, reshuffle of cabinet" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. 26 September 2023. p. 3. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Order No 177/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. MNA. 31 August 2021. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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- ^ a b c d e "State Administration Council Order No 6/2023" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. 1 February 2023. p. 6. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
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- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁". Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese).
- ^ "formation of new union ministry". Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese).
- ^ "Reorganization of union ministries". Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese).
- ^ "appointment of new union minister". Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (in Burmese).
- ^ a b "စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီနှင့် ဧရာဝတီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌများအား တာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအချို့ကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း". Eleven News (in Burmese).
- ^ "နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေး ကော်မတီကို အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အဖြစ် ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း". Eleven News (in Burmese).
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးတာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခြင်း". Ministry of Information (in Burmese).
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်ရုံး အမိန့်အမှတ် ( ၆ / ၂၀၂၁) ၁၃၈၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ပြာသိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၅ ရက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း" (in Burmese). 1 February 2021.
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်(၉/၂၀၂၁) ၁၃၈၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ပြာသိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၆ ရက် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၂ ရက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများ ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း" (in Burmese). 2 February 2021.
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် (၂၅ / ၂၀၂၁)" (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
- ^ "ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ရာပြည့် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ရုံး ဝန်ကြီး ဖြစ်လာ" (in Burmese).