With the 60-day campaign period ending today (Dec. 26) in the regime elections. The Union Election Commission (UEC) announced that polls will take place in 274 out of Myanmar’s 330 townships with voting to take place in three phases: on Dec. 28, Jan. 11, and Jan. 25, 2026.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won landslide victories in the 2015 and 2020 elections deemed free and fair by international election observers, was dissolved by the UEC for not re-registering. 

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