Min Aung Hlaing has been thrown a lifeline by China and is now under pressure to show results, but his planned election is growing less feasible by the day.
The rule of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has been one big improvisation. A fresh election will happen in a year, he said on the day of the 2021 coup, later calling his new junta a “caretaker” administration. Yet, he has spent the last four years playing for more time.
The language of the military’s own constitution has been twisted to the point of absurdity to justify repeated six-month extensions to the state of emergency, which provides the junta’s dubious legal basis. Min Aung Hlaing may have thought that time was on his side in a war against a crowd-funded, volunteer-led resistance movement that lacks the resources of a conventional state.
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