What We Know About the Myanmar Junta’s Promise of Elections

YANGON—Myanmar’s military junta has announced plans for elections in December or January—scheduling the first poll since it seized power in a bloody 2021 coup that plunged the country into civil war.

But with the junta overseeing the vote, much of the country out of government hands, and the most prominent opposition figure—Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—in jail, the prospects for democracy seem bleak.