Source: KTEN News
“Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the country’s junta-run elections, a senior party official told AFP, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. ‘We won 82 lower house seats in townships which have finished counting, out of the total of 102,’ a senior official of the Union Solidarity and Development Party told AFP. … At the last poll in 2020 the USDP was trounced by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), which was dissolved after the coup and did not appear on Sunday’s ballots. The Nobel laureate has been in detention since the putsch, which triggered a civil war.” (12/29/25)