Myanmar’s army expands the state of emergency for one and six months. news
This year the announcement has been widely finalized before the long -standing national elections before it became military.
Myanmar’s army has extended its emergency for one and six months as it struggles to maintain its rapidly delicate grip on power, with fighting on several fronts across the country.
The military-controlled National Defense and Security Council renewed the emergency rules at a meeting at the capital Naypidav on Friday, a coup on Friday, a coup on Friday, which submerged the country into anarchy after a decade.
The statement said, “All members of the National Defense and Security Council including the Commander In -Chief, including the Acting Chairman, decided to unite for the expansion of emergency for one and six months according to Section 425 of the Constitution of 2008. Did.”
“More tasks are still to be done to conduct the general election successfully. Especially for an independent and fair election, stability and peace is still necessary, ”the state -run MRTV asked its telegram channel to announce the expansion of emergency rules.
Myanmar has been in upheaval since February 1, 2021, when the army seized power from the democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government and arrested its highly popular leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Justifying the coup, the army claimed, without proof, that the NLD had committed extensive voter fraud in the 2020 elections, won three months ago by a landslide.
The military extended the situation of one year after seizing power several times for a gap of six months, as it cruelly crushed peaceful democracy protests and cruelly crushed caste-armed groups and anti-military fighters. Emerged in response.
Army Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Holing-who is also working as the self-employed Prime Minister and President of the country-promised to hold elections by August 2023. But he has repeatedly delayed doing so due to acute armed rebellion. Across the country.
Myanmar Army has faced defeat defeat in the north and west of the country since the end of 2023, in which the United States Institute of Peace has described as a crisis of the “unprecedented scale” for the army – which country’s politics But since the 1960s dominated.
Regardless of this turmoil, increasing internal and external pressure means that the army is widely expected to hold a long delayed national election at the end of 2025.
Opposition groups have promised to obstruct the elections violently, which they condemned as an attempt to legalize military rule that had confiscated power four years ago.
Under the 2008 military-draft constitution, authorities need to hold elections within six months of emergency, which is slate for 31 July.
Myanmar’s advisor Richard Hosie told Al Jazira that most of the signs point to the elections later this year, in November, in November it is a traditional month that has elections in Myanmar.
“The National Defense and Security Council meeting is scheduled for 31 July, or a ad hoc meeting before then, to potentially end the emergency situation,” Horsie told Al Jazeera. “Then they have six months to organize the elections.”
Horsie said that the Emergency situation and the latter elections are the end “return to governance by the 2008 military-draft constitution”, a step that will be welcomed by the Myanmar army and its chief bagar, members of China.
He said, “The return to the 2008 Constitution is expected to expect a little more forecast and low random decisions (by Ming Aung Halling),” he said.
