CNI News
8 October 2025
As the State Administration Council (SAC) has said that it would hold a general election in 2025, political analysts local and abroad are discussing whether the National League for Democracy (NLD) has not registered as a political party could run the election.
Census-taking would be conducted in the entire nation from 1st to 15th October and vote lists were registered after which a general election would be held in 2025 and the State power would be handed over to the winning party, said Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing.
The Union Election Commission (UEC) imposed the Political Parties Registration Law again on 31st January 2023 asked political parties to register within 60 days.
And then over 50 political parties registered and 50 political parties were allowed to register.
The commission has refused the Arakan National Party's registration. The Shan and Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) and the NLD that tended to win with most votes in the elections of Myanmar have not registered.
While seeing the SAC, the Union Election Commission and political parties
Every party that wanted democracy would have to pass through the election, director of the Thayninga Institute for Strategic Studies, U Thein Tun Oo told CNI News.
" Politically, every party that wants democracy must pass through the election. The reason why the NLD doesn't participate in the election depends on what they have hoped. According to a piece of news that I have heard, the new NLD or the NLD that have been re-built by former members has been allowed. But if they are not interested in walking on the path of election, what have they thought about? As a big party that want democracy hesitates to participate in the election, it is criticized." he said.
The NLD is split into two groups. The one is exiled NLD waging the Spring Revolution to overthrow the SAC and the Tatmadaw and the other - local NLD elements that want to attempt to make the NLD go on existing within the country, pointed out political commentators.
The exiled members of the NLD waging the Spring Revolution has announced that they will surely destroy the election which the SAC will hold. However, whether the NLD would run the election mainly depends on the decision by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who has been detained, pointed out politicians.
Because the election would be led and held by the SAC, the NLD should not run the election, U Than Soe Naing, a political commentator, told CNI News.
While seeing Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and the Chinese FM Wang Yi
" The NLD should not run the election because this election will be led and held. The Tatmadaw staged a coup d'état not because the vote list was wrong, but because they realized the USDP party that represents the Tatmadaw will never win no matter how many times it runs the election. So, if a chief minister of the NLD party uses and run the election, it wouldn't be legitimate. And the organizations that formed legally the NLD party go against the election. It's not promising that the NLD will run the election. I prefer that the NLD won't run the election. It's the best for the NLD if it doesn't run the election, I believe." he said.
The SAC made an offer to EAOs, insurgent organizations and the PDFs that they could contact and carry out in order to solve the political problem with the political means by running the election after abandoning terrorist policy.
Rather than building the power through arming policy, participating in the election politically would be the most correct, pointed out political analysts.
On the other hand, the Chinese government would provide assistance to the election that would be held by the SAC; it wanted all the stakeholders to participate in the election, said Chinese FM Wang Yi while he was meeting with Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing on 14th August 2024 during his trip to Myanmar.
