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The head of the Myanmar’s military government said that in December 2025 or January 2026, the country would be held national elections.
The overall mines of Aung Holing stated that the elections would be “free and fair” – adding that 53 political parties have already submitted their lists to participate.
This would be the first vote, as his military junta seized power in the 2021 coup, arresting and getting rid of the democratically elected leader of Aun San Chia and made unjustified claims about election fraud last year.
Since then, the country has been in the difficult, with a protest movement against the junta, which turned into an armed rebellion across the country.
Critics have described the announcement as a false, intended for the powers of junta through proxy -political parties.
Human Rights Watch, Non -Governmental Organization, said the BBC: “The junta is fervent when they think that elections in current circumstances will be considered remotely secure.
“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.”
Military junta has conducted a rigid repression on dissent since the reception of power, Performing Democracy Activists And the imprisonment of journalists.
But it is fighting for holding a broad uprising involving pro -democracy and ethnic insurgent groups, and has limited control outside major cities.
In January, the UN, citing the Association of Assistance to Political Prisoners (AApp), said at least 6 231 civilians, including 1,144 women and 709 children, were killed in the last four years.
In September, she warned that Myanmar was “immersed in the abyss of human suffering.”
