This profile mirrors and is kept in sync with the Myanmar entry in the main guide's case studies.
Overview
The junta staged a phased election in December 2025 and January 2026 amid ongoing civil war, dissolving Aung San Suu Kyi's party and prosecuting over two hundred people for criticizing the vote. The military-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party was declared the winner in February 2026, taking 739 of 1,025 seats on roughly 55% turnout; at a January 30, 2026 summit in the Philippines, ASEAN declined to endorse the results, a position the UN and most Western governments have echoed.
Analytical lens
Concepts on this wiki that help explain this case: Regime Types: How Democracy Is Measured, Democratic Backsliding and Executive Aggrandizement.