Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said by-elections would follow in some areas after a new government is formed. - Photo: Reuters
YANGON: Myanmar's junta chief acknowledged on Wednesday (Oct 15) that the military-backed administration will be unable to conduct an upcoming general election across the entire country, as a civil war triggered by a 2021 coup rages on.
Critics and many Western nations view the election - due to start in late December and the first since the coup - as a sham exercise to legitimise the military's rule via proxy political parties. Dozens of anti-junta parties are either banned or refusing to take part.
