Posted on 01/25/2026 11:45:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
"We are in the position to form a new government," said a senior official from the Union Solidarity and Development Party, after the vote's third and final phase took place on Sunday.
Myanmar's dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday (Jan 26), after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule.
While the military has said the election will return power to the people, popular democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi remains detained since the coup and her party has been dissolved, while critics say the ballot was stacked with army allies.
"We won a majority already," a senior official from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share preliminary results.
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You posted without comment but perhaps you can bottom line the situation for us dullards. TIA
Burma
We're widely read
And often quoted
But it's shaves
Not signs
For which we're noted
Burma-Shave
It’s will always be Burma-Shave to me.
Oops. I meant Burma.
The original product was a liniment
with ingredients described as having come from
“the Malay Peninsula and Burma”, hence the name.
“While the military has said the election will return power to the people, popular democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi remains detained since the coup and her party has been dissolved, while critics say the ballot was stacked with army allies.”
Pretty much what Europe does to parties they don’t like, and what the Democrats almost did to Trump.
Didn’t know that. Learned something new.
Burma is, unfortunately, just another example of failed socialist policies.
Since WWII, it has been ruled by violent lefties, to a predictable end.
As everywhere, socialists introduced misery, killing and suffering.
An, once established, socialism is very hard to undo.
In Burma, the end is not in sight!
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