Have you ever heard of an election where a dictatorship’s proxy party wins by barring genuine opposition from competing? The 2025–26 Myanmar election typified such a scripted farce: widely condemned as a stage-managed performance to legitimise military rule, rather than a true democratic contest. Myanmar’s military junta, led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seized power in a coup in February 2021, overthrowing the elected government of Aung S…
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