According to the results released until this Friday by the Electoral Commission, controlled by the Army, and reproduced by vehicles aligned with the junta, the ruling Union, Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which represents the military, won around 300 seats out of a total of 420
The military junta party that has held power in Myanmar since the 2021 coup d’état proclaimed that it had won a landslide victory in the country’s recent elections, held in three phases — the last last Sunday — and without pro-democracy opposition.
According to the results released until this Friday by the Electoral Commission, controlled by the Army, and reproduced by vehicles aligned with the junta, the ruling Union, Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which represents the military, won around 300 seats out of a total of 420 in dispute (between both parliamentary chambers).
With these latest results, the USDP secured enough support to elect the three vice-presidents of the new government in Parliament, as well as the president, a position that the junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, assumed on an interim basis in July last year.
So far, the position that the 69-year-old general will occupy in the new administration, supported by China and Russia and which seeks to normalize relations with the international community, has not been confirmed.
Other small parties, integrated or led by people close to the Army, won around 30 seats, according to the partial results that the junta has been publishing since the first round of elections, held on December 28.
Several elected lawmakers are sanctioned by the US and European Union due to their role in the military junta, accused of numerous attacks against the civilian population since the coup, which ended a democratic government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has since been imprisoned.
In these votes, identified as fraudulent by the United Nations (UN) and several countries, the junta prevented the participation of pro-democracy parties and leaders, some of whom have joined the armed struggle since the coup and are fighting with the Army for control of territories.
Elections were not held in at least 56 municipalities, and dozens of neighborhoods were also excluded from the electoral process because they were territories not controlled by the Army, in which ethnic guerrillas or pro-democracy groups had an advantage in the midst of a decades-long conflict, worsened after the coup.
*EFE
