{"id":76089,"date":"2026-01-26T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/this-is-a-fake-election-polls-close-in-myanmar-but-voters-have-little-doubt-junta-proxy-will-prevail"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:24:04","slug":"this-is-a-fake-election-polls-close-in-myanmar-but-voters-have-little-doubt-junta-proxy-will-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76089","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is a fake election\u2019: Polls close in Myanmar but voters have little doubt junta proxy will prevail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After arresting political opponents, banning the most popular party and using violence to crush dissent, the military\u2019s proxy is on course to win by a landslide<\/p>\n<p>The polls have closed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a>, but no one is waiting in suspense. After arresting political opponents, banning the most popular political party and using violence to crush dissent, the military\u2019s proxy is on course to win by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fake election,\u201d says a man who voted on Sunday in Mandalay, the second most populous city, his finger freshly dipped in purple ink. Like many, he voted only out of fear, worried that junta officials could retaliate if he stayed home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/this-is-a-fake-election-polls-close-in-myanmar-but-voters-have-little-doubt-junta-proxy-will-prevail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After arresting political opponents, banning the most popular party and using violence to crush dissent, the military\u2019s proxy is on course to win by a landslideThe polls have closed in Myanmar, but no one is waiting in suspense. After arresting politic&#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":[82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76089","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\/76089","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=76089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76089\/revisions\/76090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}