{"id":76078,"date":"2026-01-25T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/25\/myanmar-election-enters-final-stage-amid-airstrikes-and-exclusions"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:55:53","slug":"myanmar-election-enters-final-stage-amid-airstrikes-and-exclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76078","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army\u2019s grip on power<\/p>\n<p>Voting in Myanmar has ended with the military-backed party expected to win a landslide victory after a month-long election that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/26\/myanmar-junta-prepares-elections-legitimise-power\">widely derided as a sham<\/a> designed to cement the army\u2019s grip on power.<\/p>\n<p>The junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has rejected criticism of the vote, saying it has the support of the public and presenting it as a return to democracy and stability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/25\/myanmar-election-enters-final-stage-amid-airstrikes-and-exclusions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army\u2019s grip on powerVoting in Myanmar has ended with the military-backed party expected to win a landslide victory after a month-long election that has been widely deride&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[919,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76078\/revisions\/76080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}