Overview
- Balloting began on December 28 in the first of three rounds, the country’s first nationwide vote since the 2021 coup.
- Polling is confined largely to areas the authorities control as ongoing conflict prevents voting in wide swaths of the country.
- The National Unity Government’s spokesperson, Nay Phone Latt, dismisses the process as a sham and rejects the junta’s authority.
- Centrist reformist leader Ko Ko Gyi says his People’s Party will participate as a pragmatic step toward gradual change.
- Aung San Suu Kyi remains detained and her NLD has been dissolved, military-aligned parties are widely expected to prevail, and results are due around the end of January.