Myanmar’s junta-backed party declares majority in poll decried as ‘fraudulent’

2026-01-26 - 06:20

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. While the military has said the election will return power to the people, popular democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi remains detained since the coup and her party has been dissolved, while critics say the ballot was stacked with army allies. “We won a majority already,” a senior official from the...