Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party has won a junta-run election, according to a party source on Monday, after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule.
The military snatched power in a 2021 coup, ending Myanmar’s experiment with civilian rule and triggering civil war, but pledged a three-phase vote, which finished on Sunday, would return power to the people.
With massively popular democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi detained and her party dissolved,…
Myanmar’s junta-backed party declares majority in poll decried as ‘fraudulent’
