A man uses an electronic voting booth at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election in Yangon on December 28, 2025. Voting begins in Myanmar's heavily restricted polls, ...

Myanmar will hold the first phase of its general election Sunday, its first vote since 2020. The military calls the polls a return to democracy; observers say its a facade of legitimacy on junta rule.

Voters in military-controlled areas of Myanmar headed to the polls Sunday in a phased election largely considered a sham and expected to favor the junta-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Almost nobody believes that Myanmar’s first elections since the 2021 coup are free or fair. But they could still advance the interests of the ruling military junta – and of its supporters in Beijing.

Polls have closed in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup. The heavily restricted ...

The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are wary Five years after Myanmar’s junta ousted the country’s last elected government, triggering a civil war, ...

Myanmar has begun voting in its first general election since the military seized power in a coup in February 2021, an event the ruling junta presents as a return to democratic order after years of ...

Under the shadow of civil war and questions over the poll's credibility, the initial round of Myanmar's phased general election closed on Sunday, with signs of low voter turnout for the first polls ...

Soft orchestral music filled Studio A of Myanmar Radio and Television in Yangon, Myanmar, as voices rose in both Chinese and Myanmar verse, weaving together two literary traditions shaped by centuries ...

Voters in parts of Myanmar went to the polls for the first time in five years Sunday, for what the country’s military-led government called “free and fair elections,” but many observers denounced as a ...

Voting in the first phase of general elections in Myanmar, the first since a military coup in 2021, concluded on Sunday, local media reported. The polling stations in 102 townships opened at 6 am ...

Election Commission officials prepare at a polling station inside a school ahead of a general election, in Thingangyun Township, Yangon, Myanmar, December 27, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer Dec 28 (Reuters) - ...