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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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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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A military-backed party in Myanmar holds rallies as campaigning begins for December election
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Leaning Left9Leaning Right11Center18Last UpdatedBias Distribution47% Center
Bias Distribution
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47% Center
L 24%
C 47%
R 29%
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