{"id":75729,"date":"2025-12-24T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/24\/myanmars-first-election-since-the-2021-coup-everything-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:00:53","slug":"myanmars-first-election-since-the-2021-coup-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75729","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s first election since the 2021 coup: everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are wary<\/p>\n<p>Five years after Myanmar\u2019s junta ousted the country\u2019s last elected government, triggering a civil war, voting is set to begin this week in national elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/myanmar-junta-ends-state-emergency-prepares-elections\">The junta claims the vote is a return to democracy<\/a>, but in reality the one-sided and heavily restricted poll has been widely condemned as a sham designed to keep the generals in power through proxies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/24\/myanmars-first-election-since-the-2021-coup-everything-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are waryFive years after Myanmar\u2019s junta ousted the country\u2019s last elected government, triggering a civil war, voting is set to begin this week in national electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[919,82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75729\/revisions\/75730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}