YANGON: & nbsp, Myanmar’s junta is likely to hold elections in 2025, party officials told AFP on Tuesday( Sep 5 ), even as the military fights to stifle opposition to its rule.
The military used unfounded accusations of widespread fraud in the 2020 elections, which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy ( NLD ) won resoundingly, to defend its February 2021 putsch.
The revolution put an end to a 10-year democratic experiment and caused unrest in the nation, with the military now engaged in battles with rivals in various regions.
Elections are probably going to be held in 2025, according to a top Union Solidarity and Development Party member who requested privacy.
” In 2024, a population will be taken. Next year is not possible due to the situation( in Myanmar ) and that nationwide survey operation, they claimed.
Elections will probably take place in first 2025, according to a junta-approved group member without providing any further details.
The junta-stacked election commission announced on Tuesday that 36 political events have been given permission to participate in any upcoming elections without providing a deadline for when they would be held.
Seven had received national competition approval, and 29 on a local level.
It also stated that the first-past-the-post method, which allowed the NLD to win crushing majorities at the expense of parties with military support, may be abandoned.
It stated that a proportional agency system may be implemented nationwide.
Due to the NLD’s failure to re-register under strict new military-authored laws, the election commission dissolved it in March.
Suu Kyi co-founded the NLD in 1988, and in 1990 votes that were later overturned by the then-junta, he won by a disaster.
The party led the charge for political aspirations in Myanmar, which was ruled by the government, and eventually defeated military-backed parties in significant elections in 2015 and 2020.
With one former parliamentarian being executed by the dictatorship in the nation’s first use of the death penalty in decades, its management has been decimated by its terrible crackdown on dissent.