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A Military-Backed Party in Myanmar Holds Rallies as Campaigning Begins for December Election
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an end to Myanmar's four-year civil war and urged the junta to prioritize humanitarian aid over a December election widely seen as unfair.
- Political parties in Myanmar will start campaigning on October 28 ahead of the elections on December 28, which many consider a way to legitimize military rule.
- Myanmar's military government has dissolved Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won 82% of elected seats in the last election, and it claims unsubstantiated voter fraud.
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will not send observers to the election, which rights groups criticize as fundamentally flawed.
- Civilians have expressed disinterest in the election due to ongoing struggles and a lack of support for it.
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The parties that have the approval of the military junta that governs Burma since the coup...
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A military-backed party in Myanmar holds rallies as campaigning begins for December election
BANGKOK (AP) — Political parties in military-run Myanmar on Tuesday kicked off their election campaigns, two months ahead of scheduled national polls that are widely seen as an effort to confer legitimacy on the military’s 2021 seizure of power, even…
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Campaigning begins in Myanmar’s junta-run election
Parties approved to participate in Myanmar's junta-organised elections are set to start campaigning Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned at home and abroad as a ploy to legitimise military rule. Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, deposing and jailing democratic figurehead Aung
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