US EditionMilitary-backed party secures Myanmar election win with opposition excluded
The military-backed USDP won over 85% of contested seats in a vote criticized as a sham that excludes major opposition amid ongoing civil war and repression, UN experts said.
- On Monday, the Union Solidarity and Development Party claimed victory in Myanmar's first election since the 2021 army takeover, held in three phases on Dec.28, Jan.11 and Jan.25.
- Exclusion and low participation left major opposition parties excluded, 67 of 330 townships not participating, and over 4,800 candidates from 57 political parties competing, though only six contested nationwide.
- A senior USDP official told The Associated Press that the party won 57 of 61 lower house seats contested in the final phase held on Sunday, with vote counts for upper house and regional legislatures ongoing, giving the USDP at least 290 seats across both chambers.
- That arithmetic gives the USDP and military a control of more than 450 seats, well above the 294 needed to form a government, with MPs and appointees to propose three presidential candidates.
- Critics of the poll say the elections were neither free nor fair and aimed to legitimize military rule, while Tom Andrews, U.N. special rapporteur, urged the international community on Friday to reject the results.
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Myanmar's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), considered a civilian extension of the military, declared victory in Myanmar's parliamentary elections on Monday, the French news agency AFP reported, citing a source. The elections were seen by many as an attempt by the military junta to consolidate power in the country five years after a coup.
REPORT - The pro-military party declared its victory after the first election since the coup d'état of 2021, while the civil war was raging.
The party with General Min Aung Hlaing is ahead of the elections. Many in the civil war country could not vote.
They have never been in question: the current regime will remain in power, moving only formally from military to civilian
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Military-backed party secures Myanmar election win with opposition excluded
Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party has claimed victory in the country's first election since the army seized power in 2021.
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