Chairman of the State Administration Council
နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ
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Incumbent Min Aung Hlaing since 2 February 2021
State Administration Council
Residence	Naypyidaw
Appointer	President of Myanmar
Formation	2 February 2021; 16 months ago (2021-02-02)
First holder	Min Aung Hlaing
Deputy	Vice Chairman

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The chairman of the State Administration Council (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) is the de facto head of government of Myanmar from the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. Min Aung Hlaing is the current holder of the office, and also serves as the Prime Minister of newly formed Caretaker Government.^[1][2][3][4]

Background

On 1 February 2021, the military of Myanmar launched a coup on the democratically elected members of Myanmar's ruling party, the National League for Democracy.^[5] The leader of the coup, Min Aung Hlaing, became the de facto leader of the state after the coup.^[6] A day after the coup, Min Aung Hlaing formalized his leadership by forming the State Administration Council, in which he assumed office as the chairman.^[7]

Powers

As Min Aung Hlaing concurrently held office as the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, he has the right to exercise legislative, judicative, and executive powers. His chairman office exercises his legislative power.^[7]

Chairman

Portrait	Name (birth–death)	Term of office			Deputy(s)
		Took office	Left office	Time in office
	Min Aung Hlaing (born 1956)	2 February 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 132 days	Soe Win

Vice Chairman

The vice chairman of the State Administration Council is the de facto deputy head of government of Myanmar.

Portrait	Name (birth–death)	Term of office			Chairman
		Took office	Left office	Time in office
	Soe Win (born 1961)	2 February 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 132 days	Min Aung Hlaing