NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar, Dec 29, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Myanmar's dominant pro-military party is "winning a majority" in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is "winning a majority of seats around the country according to different reports", said a party official in the capital Naypyidaw, requesting anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media. The military overturned the results of the last poll in 2020 after Suu Kyi's party, the NLD, trounced the USDP. "We guarantee it to be a free and fair election," he told reporters after casting his vote in Naypyidaw. But amid the war, the military has acknowledged that elections cannot happen in almost one in five lower house constituencies.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha December 29, 2025 14:40 UTC