Since the coup d’etat which has overthrown the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, it will be the first. “We plan to organize elections in December 2025 (…) or in January 2026 ”said General Min Aung Hlaing, quoted in the New world myanmar lightPosted on Saturday March 8.
The Burmese army took power in the country in February 2021, alleging a massive electoral fraud without evidence during the 2020 election, won widely by the National League for the Democracy of Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The junta then launched Bloody repression against any dissent And, while the fighting ravaged a large part of the country, it repeatedly postponed the elections judged by its opponents impossible to hold free and fair.
Western chancelleries and human rights groups have already said that the election project is akin to a masquerade, for lack of real tolerated opposition, in a fragmented country under the control of a myriad of armed groups.
A coordinated attack by several groups belonging to ethnic minorities, in October 2023, near the Chinese border, placed the junta in a position of weakness ever seen since then, according to experts, cited by the France-Presse agency.
The fierce fighting between junta forces and rebel groups have killed more than 6,000 people, and caused more than 3.5 million people, according to the United Nations.
