Canada’s Parliamentary Friends of a Democratic Burma reject the regime’s 2025-26 elections

The Parliamentary Friends of a Democratic Burma, an Ottawa-based group of Canadian parliamentarians, announced on Monday that it has rejected the Myanmar regime’s 2025-26 “sham” elections, which are scheduled to begin on Dec. 28 and continue into January 2026. 

“The military junta’s planned sham election is neither free nor fair, and must not be recognized by Canada or any [other] democratic nation,” Kelly DeRidder, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre in the province of Ontario, said in a statement.

The Canadian parliamentarians statement added that any country accepting the results of the regime elections would betray millions of people in Myanmar and legitimize the military, which seized power in the 2021 coup by ousting the democratically-elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government led by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint.