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Voting concluded in Myanmar’s month-long election on Sunday, with the dominant pro-military party on course for a landslide victory in a junta-run poll critics say will only prolong the army’s grip on power.
The Southeast Asian nation has a long history of military rule, but the generals took a back seat for a decade of civilian-led reforms.
That ended in a 2021 military coup when democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi was detained, civil war broke out, and the country descended into a humanitarian crisis.
The election’s third and final phase closed after voting took place in dozens of constituencies across the country, just a week shy of the coup’s five-year anniversary.
