YANGON, Myanmar, Jan 12, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Myanmar's main pro-military party won the parliamentary seat of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections run under the junta's rule, a party official told AFP on Monday. A senior official from the Union Solidarity and Development Party speaking anonymously because they were not authorised to disclose results said they "won in Kawhmu" -- Suu Kyi's former seat in Yangon region. The military deposed and detained Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup, claiming she secured a landslide election win over pro-military parties the previous year by means of massive voter fraud. The final phase of the month-long vote is scheduled for January 25, with the junta saying the election will return power to the people. But with Suu Kyi still held in seclusion and her hugely popular party dissolved, democracy advocates say the vote has been rigged by a crackdown on dissent and a ballot stacked with military allies.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 12, 2026 06:50 UTC