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Myanmar, election and voter turnout

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In Myanmar’s Election, ‘Voting Out of Fear, Not Hope’

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls.

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Polls open for military-ruled Myanmar's first election in 5 years

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Weak turnout seen in Myanmar's phased election, first since 2021 coup

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Myanmar’s military junta holds elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages

Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleas...

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War-torn Myanmar voting in widely criticised 'sham' election

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Myanmar’s military leader votes in controversial election

Al Jazeera English · 9h

What’s happening in Myanmar’s civil war as military stages elections?

The multi-phased election is unfolding amid a raging civil war, with ethnic armed groups and opposition militias fighting the military for control of vast stretches of territory, stretching from the b...

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Myanmar goes to the polls amid civil war and humanitarian crisis

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Conflict and fear sap campaign energy ahead of Myanmar election

Xinhuanet

Feature: Myanmar voters cast votes in first phase of election to open new chapter of hope

At 6 a.m., voting officially began. Voters entered the polling stations, where they proceeded through security checks, identity verification and signing procedures before casting their ballots for the Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House), Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) and State and Region Hluttaws (State and Region Parliaments).

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Myanmar’s Election Is Derided as Fake, but the Nation’s Suffering Is All Too Real

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.

'Unfair election': young voters absent from Myanmar polls; overall tepid turnout

The droves of young people who queued to cast ballots in past elections in Myanmar were conspicuous by their absence from Sunday's military-run poll,

Xinhuanet

First phase of Myanmar's general election concludes

YANGON, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Voting for the first phase of Myanmar's 2025 multi-party democratic general election concluded on Sunday afternoon. Voting began at 6 a.m. local time on Sunday. At 4 p.m., an election official at a polling station in Yangon's Kyauktada township announced the closure of the polling station.

Poetry, song bridge cultures at China-Myanmar friendship event in Yangon

On Wednesday morning, poetry and song became more than performances. They became a bridge between the two neighboring nations. The classical poetry recitation and musical concert, jointly organized by China's Guangxi Radio and Television and Myanmar Radio and Television under Myanmar's Ministry of Information,

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Sunday polls bring hopes to Myanmar, junta says on election eve

Myanmar kicks off its three-phase general elections on Sunday, with the government promising it will mark a "turning a new page for Myanmar".