the position of Prime Minister, was established for her in 2016. She served as the de facto head of government and the dominant state figure until she was removed with the 2021 coup d'état. Qualifications The Constitution of Myanmar sets the principle qualifications that the candidate must meet to be eligible to the office of the President. in Chapter 1: The President, Part I: The Federation of Myanmar in the Constitution of Myanmar. President has to be: A citizen of Myanmar. At least 45 years of age. Qualified to be elected as member of the National Assembly. According to the Constitution of Myanmar, the president: shall be loyal to the Union and its citizens; shall be a citizen of Myanmar who was born of both parents who were born in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Union and being Myanmar Nationals; shall be an elected person who has attained at least the age of 45; shall be well acquainted with the affairs of the Union such as political, administrative, economic and military; shall be a person who has resided continuously in the Union for at least 20 years up to the time of his election as President(Proviso: An official period of stay in a foreign country with the permission of the Union shall be counted as a residing period in the Union) shall he himself, one of the parents, the spouse, one of the legitimate children or their spouses not owe allegiance to a foreign power, not be subject of a foreign power or citizen of a foreign country. They shall not be persons entitled to enjoy the rights and privileges of a subject of a foreign government or citizen of a foreign country; shall possess prescribed qualifications of the President, in addition to qualifications prescribed to stand for election to the Hluttaw. Moreover, upon taking oath in office, the president is constitutionally forbidden from taking part in any political party activities (Chapter III, 64). Election process The president is not directly elected by Burmese voters; instead, they are indirectly elected by the Presidential Electoral College (), an electoral body made of three separate committees. One committee is composed of MPs who represent the proportions of MPs elected from each Region or State; another is composed of MPs who represent the proportions of MPs elected from each township population; the third is of military-appointed MPs personally nominated by the