Pro-regime parties await December election announcement as resistance calls on citizens to boycott polls

Nay Phone Latt, the spokesperson for the National Unity Government (NUG) Prime Minister’s Office, stated on Tuesday that all 54 political parties which have registered with the regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) to run candidates in the planned general elections lack “public support.”  

“Even combined, they failed to secure 10 percent of seats in the Parliament during the 2020 general elections,” said Nay Phone Latt, adding that the regime’s plan to hold polls by December “will not resolve the issues Myanmar is facing” and called on all citizens to reject any election held by the regime in Naypyidaw, which seized power after the 2021 military coup.