Myanmar Will Hold An Election On December 28, 2025
JAKARTA - Myanmar authorities, Monday (18/8) announced that elections will be held on December 28, 2025, local media reported.
According to an MRTV report, the United Elections Commission stated that the country's "many-party democratic general election" day will fall on Sunday, December 28, 2025.
The election will be the first time held in a country with a majority Buddhist population since November 2020, which was won by the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi but was ousted in a military coup in February 2021.
The announcement was released after Myanmar's military junta last month formed a general election supervisory commission, signaling the emergency government would end soon.
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Myanmar's junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has now declared himself interim president.
The military coup in early 2021, which toppled the democratically elected NLD-led government, plunged Myanmar into an emergency government for more than 4 years.
In the latest developments, U Myint Swe, who was appointed interim president of Myanmar by the military junta following the 2021 coup, died earlier this month at the age of 74.
As a result of U Myint Swe's illness, the interim presidential term has been taken over by Senior General Min when he formed the general election supervisory commission.