A man tests a voting machine during Myanmar's Union Election Commission's first major press conference in Naypyidaw on September 11, 2025. There are a total of 440 constituencies but there will be no voting in 65 of them, accounting for nearly 15 per cent of the total.- AFP
YANGON: Myanmar's junta acknowledged Monday its long-promised election would not be held in about one in seven national parliament constituencies, as it battles myriad rebel forces opposed to the poll.
A civil war has consumed Myanmar since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, jailing democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi and deposing her civilian government.
