The advertisement is expected to be the latter before the army carries national surveys that have been delayed long this year.
The Myanmar army extended its emergency condition for another six months because it is struggling to maintain its growing grip more power, while fighting on multiple fronts throughout the country.
The National Defense and Security Council, which was able to control the military, renewed the emergency base at a meeting in the capital Naybyidaw on Friday, that is, the day before the fourth anniversary of the coup, the country turned in chaos after a decade of initial democracy.
The statement said, “All members of the National Defense and Security Council, including the Supreme Commander and the Chargé d’Affaires of the Acting Acting, decided in harmony to extend the state of emergency for another six months, according to Article 425 of the 2008 constitution,” the statement said.
“There is still more tasks to be performed to successfully hold the general elections.” The state run by the state on Telegram said in announcing the extension of the emergency base: “Especially in free and fair elections, there is still a need for stability and peace.”
Myanmar has been in turmoil since February 1, 2021, when the army seized power from the government of the Democratic elected Democracy (NLD) and its famous leader, Aung San Suu Ki.
With the justification of the coup, the army claimed, without evidence, that NLD had committed widespread fraud for voters in the 2020 elections that he won three months ago.
The army imposed a state of emergency for a year after the seizure of power, and extended it for six months of time several times because it was brutally crushed by protests in support of peaceful democracy and fought the ethnic armed groups and anti -ethical fighters that appeared in response to the coup.
The commander of the commander of the army, Main Ong Hang-who also works as the Prime Minister and Self-appointed President in the country-has promised to the elections by August 2023. But he was repeatedly delayed due to the increasingly intense armed rebellion throughout the country.
The Myanmar Army has suffered from a series of harmful defeats in the north and west of the country since late 2023, while the United States Peace Institute described it as a “unprecedented scale” of the army – which has controlled the country’s policy since the 1960s.
Despite these turmoil, the growing internal and external pressure means that the army is widely expected to hold the long -term national elections in late 2025.
The opposition groups have pledged violently to disrupt opinion polls, which they condemn as an attempt to legitimize the military regime, which seized power four years ago.
Under the 2008 constitution formulated by the army, the authorities must hold elections within six months of raising the state of emergency, through which it is scheduled to take place on July 31.
Richard Horsi, Myanmar’s advisor to the Crisis Group, told Al -Jazeera that most indicators indicate that the elections that were held recently later this year, as November was traditionally the month in which opinion polls are taking place in Myanmar.
“The National Defense and Security Council meeting is scheduled for July 31, or there could be a dedicated meeting called before, to announce the end of the emergency state,” Horusi told Al -Jazeera. “Then they have six months to organize opinion polls.”
Horsy added that the end of the state of emergency and subsequent elections means “a return to power through the constitution that was drafted by the army in 2008,” a step that the members of the army in Myanmar and its main supporter, China, welcomed.
The 2008 constitution is seen as hope that it will lead to more prediction and less random decisions [by Ming Aung Hlaing]He said.
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2025-01-31 08:09:00
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