"I nominate Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as vice-president," MP Kyaw Kyaw Htay said, according to a television broadcast of a lower house session on state-run media.

Three vice-presidents will be chosen, one of whom will be elected as president.

Myanmar's junta also installed a new military commander-in-chief on Monday, reports said, with former spymaster Ye Win Oo replacing Min Aung Hlaing.

Ye Win Oo was promoted to the top military role at a ceremony in the capital Naypyidaw, several Myanmar media outlets reported.

Min Aung Hlaing has ruled by diktat since ousting the hugely popular government of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.

The junta leaders detained Aung San Suu Kyi and dissolved her party, triggering civil war.

Pro-military parties secured a walkover victory earlier this year in elections overseen by the junta and widely criticised by democracy watchdogs.

Under the constitution, Min Aung Hlaing is required to step down from his military post to become president.

He is already acting president, but taking the role on a permanent basis would bolster critics who accuse the military of effectively transferring power to itself in a civilian disguise.