![]() These claims will be received with scepticism. ![]() Following the installation of Myint Swe, the vice president and a former general, as acting president, the military declared a one-year state of emergency and announced that it would reconstitute the election commission, hold elections and transfer power to the winning party. The military’s seizure of power reportedly occurred after the NLD did not agree to its demand of postponing parliament, due to convene on 1 February, until the election results were investigated. Tensions have escalated in recent days after the military threatened to ‘take action’ and refused to rule out a coup if the election dispute was not resolved. The country’s election commission, which the military accused of having ‘neglected to ensure free, fair and transparent election’, had rejected the military’s claims of voting irregularities. ![]() ![]() This comes after the Tatmadaw, which held power directly until 2011 and through a proxy political party until 2015, contested the results of Myanmar’s November 2020 general elections, which the NLD won by a crushing majority. In the early hours of 1 February, leading figures from Myanmar’s government and the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, were detained by Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw. ![]()
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