Myanmar’s military government says it will hold elections this year

Myanmar military government head said the country would hold the December 2025 national elections or January 2026.

General Min Aung Hling said the elections would be “free and fair” – adding that 53 political parties had already submitted their lists to participate.

This will be the first vote, as his military junta took power in a coup in 2021, arresting and closing a democratically elected leader Aun San Sung and making unjustified claims for fraud in the previous year.

Since then, the country has been in turmoil, with the protest movement against the junta becoming an armed rebellion throughout the country.

Critics have identified the message as a fake intended to maintain the junta power through power of attorney political parties.

Human Rights Watch NGO told the BBC: “The junta is misled if they think the elections in the present circumstances will be considered remotely credible.

“As a precursor to the election, they must end the violence, release all these arbitrarily detained, and allow all political parties to register and participate instead of dissolving opposition parties.”

Military Junta has committed a violent repression of disagreement after the acceptance of power, Performing Democracy activists And closed journalists.

But it is struggling to contain a widespread rebel, including pro -depositracy and ethnic rebel groups and has limited control outside the big cities.

The UN, citing the Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) Association, said in January that at least 6,231 civilians were killed by the military, including 1144 women and 709 children in the last four years.

He warned in September that Myanmar “sinks into an abyss of human suffering.”