Myanmar's dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the elections, a senior party official told AFP, after democracy watchdogs warned the junta-run poll would entrench military rule.
The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday (December 28, 2025) opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people.
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"We won 82 lower house seats in townships which have finished counting, out of the total of 102," a senior member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told AFP.
The figure implies that the party — which many analysts describe as a civilian proxy of the military — took more than 80 percent of the lower house seats that were put to the vote on Sunday (December 28).
