Yangon, Myanmar, Jan 26, 2026 (AFP) - Myanmar pro-military party declares victory in junta-run polls

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2026-01-26

Myanmar's dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule. The military snatched power in a 2021 coup, ending Myanmar's experiment with civilian rule and triggering civil war, but pledged a three-phase vote, which finished on Sunday, would return power to the people. With massively popular democratic figurehead Aung......

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