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Myanmar will start its general elections on December 28, its military government announced in a phased poll, widely convicted as a fake, which will be used to consolidate the junta power.
This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in the bloody coup in 2021 and put a democratically elected leader of Aung San -Kiya in prison.
Myanmar was involved in the civil war, because with the deadly battles between military and ethnic armed groups, many of whom said they did not allow voting in their areas.
Preliminary plans for holding elections were repeatedly detained, as the military fought for the maintenance of the opposition uprising, which acquired control over the country.
About 55 parties registered in the elections, state media said on Monday, adding that nine of them plan to compete for seats across the country.
“The first phase of multi-party democratic elections for each parliament will begin on Sunday, December 28, 2025,” the Myanmar election commission said.
“The dates of the next stages will be announced later.”
With most of the Myanmar under the control of the opposition and the war, the holding of this election is a formidable material and technical exercise for the military leaders of the country.
But Junta Ming’s leader Min Aung Hlaing, who led the catastrophic coup four and a half years ago, said the vote should go ahead and threaten seriously punishing or hinders the choice.
The National League of Democracy, led by SUU, who received landslides at the two elections, will not be allowed to challenge this one.
The planned elections were widely rejected, but it has the support of the most powerful neighbor in Myanmar, who views stability in the southeastern nation as vital strategic interest.
Critics believe the junta will use elections to maintain their power through the proxy -political parties.
Tom Andrews, a special rapporteur of the united nation in Myanmar’s rights, accused the junta in the development of “mirage of electoral exercises” to give himself spoke.
Andrew called on the international community to reject the election to “not allow the military junta … to leave this fraud.”
Thousands of people were killed across Myanmar from a coup that destroyed the economy in most of the country and left the humanitarian vacuum.
Myanmar also suffered A devastating earthquake in March and international cuts in financing that left vulnerable people in desperate and dangerous difficulties.
Junta would be “deceptive” Think that the elections held in current circumstances will be considered “reminiscently”, BBC Human Rights Watch reported earlier this year.
“As a predecessor of the election, they need to stop violence, release all arbitrarily detained, and allow all political parties to register and participate, and not dissolve opposition parties,” NGO said.
