{"id":75921,"date":"2026-01-11T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/11\/myanmar-junta-holds-second-phase-of-election-widely-decried-as-a-sham-exercise"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:03:50","slug":"myanmar-junta-holds-second-phase-of-election-widely-decried-as-a-sham-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75921","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a \u2018sham exercise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credible<\/p>\n<p>Voters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a> has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/11\/myanmar-junta-holds-second-phase-of-election-widely-decried-as-a-sham-exercise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75922,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921\/revisions\/75922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}