US EditionMyanmar junta chief announces election for December or January
- Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, as state media reported.
- Fifty-Three political parties have submitted their lists to participate in the election, according to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
- Critics have denounced the anticipated elections as a sham aimed at retaining military power amid ongoing unrest, with many parties banned.
- Min Aung Hlaing stated that the elections would be 'free and fair,' as reported by the Global New Light of Myanmar.
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What we know about the Myanmar junta’s promise of elections
YANGON, March 11 — Myanmar’s military junta has announced plans for elections in December or January — scheduling the first poll since it seized power in a bloody 2021 coup that plunged the country into civil war. But with the junta overseeing the vote, much of the country out of government hands, and the most prominent opposition figure — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — in jail, the prospects for democracy seem bleak. Here is what we know so …
Myanmar junta chief announces election for December or January
Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday, citing the junta chief, who provided the first specific time frame for the long-promised polls in the war-torn nation.
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