Singapore warns regime in Naypyidaw about credibility of its 2025-26 elections

Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Tuesday that the regime’s 2025-26 elections set to begin on Dec. 28, and continue on Jan. 11 and at a later undecided date, cannot be considered legitimate unless there’s “constructive dialogue.”

“Peace, security and inclusive participation must be the basis of the upcoming elections so that the outcome is credible and reflects the will of the Myanmar people,” Balakrishnan wrote on Nov. 4 in response to a question raised by a Singapore Member of Parliament on political developments in Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government was ousted in a military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Since then, the State Counsellor and President Win Myint have been held incommunicado by the regime, which seized power during the 2021 coup.