#election-legitimacy

#election-legitimacy

The vote, which begins on December 28, is being widely viewed as a ploy to legitimise the ruling military government. Campaigning has begun in military-run Myanmar, two months ahead of an election being widely dismissed at home and abroad as a transparent bid to confer legitimacy on the army's 2021 seizure of power. The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) held events on Tuesday in the capital Naypyitaw and in Yangon, the country's largest city, to launch its campaign.