Myanmar will hold nationwide elections beginning Dec. 28, setting a date for polls that have been denounced as a sham to normalize the army’s 2021 seizure of power even as much of the country is wracked by civil war.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Myanmar Junta has announced that it will hold the long-promised elections beginning on December 28, 2025. According to Al Jazeera report, the Union Election Commission declared on Monday, August 18, that the elections will be held in phases.

Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta's power. This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in a bloody coup in 2021, and imprisoned democratically elected leader Aung San Sung Kyi.