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Myanmar junta boot stomps a return to democracy – Asia Times

By Thomas A. Smith

Myanmar s decade-long experiment with discipline-flourishing democracy may have ended on February 1 with the military coup d etat, but the paperwork for the putsch was finalized on July 26 with the official annulment of the results of the November 2020 elections overwhelmingly won by Aung San Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy (NLD).

The Union Election Commission (UEC) announced that under provisions of the 2008 constitution and electoral laws that the November 8 nationwide polls were marred by 11,305,390 irregularities related to voting.

In its investigation into the conduct of the elections, the UEC claimed to have examined conditions in 315 of Myanmar s 330 townships and interviewed local UEC officials, government administrators, police and immigration officers, and political party members.

via asiatimes.com

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