The 2025 Myanmar Election Campaign Period Begins, Aung San Suu Kyi Party Does Not Participate

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JAKARTA - The political parties in Myanmar controlled by the military today, Tuesday, October 28, began the campaign period for the 2025 Myanmar General Election (Pemilu).

Citing AFP, the campaign period started two months earlier than the election schedule set. This is seen as a military effort to legitimize the power struggle of Myanmar's legitimate leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.

The campaign also started a day after UN Secretary-General Ant Totalio Guterres, at a meeting of leaders of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN), warned that elections planned in Myanmar could prolong crisis instability in the country.

Critics also view the military, which leads the current Myanmar government, to hold elections on December 28, 2025 fairly.

A total of 57 political parties have signed up for the 2025 Myanmar elections, but Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won the last two elections in a landslide but was later ousted by the military, was not on the list.

The NLD Party is one of dozens of parties requested by Myanmar election organizers -which was formed by the military - to disband.