CNI News

11 June 2025

The upcoming elections in Myanmar are an exit for the people rather than for the SAC, the Karen People's Party (KPP) chairperson Daw Nant Khin Aye Oo told CNI News. 

The people were sandwiched between battles of the two sides and got into trouble as hostages and only when a government emerged after elections were held, could the country exit from the crisis, so elections were an exit for the people, she said.

" Some people says that elections are the exit for the SAC, but as for us, elections are the exit for the people because the people are sandwiched between the battles of the two sides and are getting into trouble as hostages. Only when a government emerges after elections are held, could the country exit from the crisis. A free forum will be held by the end of this month, where how to rebuild the country and how to make the elections peaceful will be discussed." said Daw Nant Khin Aye Oo.

While the SAC chairman was meeting with political parties

There was no dispute that elections were not exit for the people, but they were for the SAC, U Kyi Myint, a political commentator told CNI News.

SAC Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said that elections in Myanmar will be held in phases, in December 2025 and January 2026.

Then, armed groups and democracy activists said that the SAC was looking for a way out of the political crisis by holding elections, so the elections that SAC was going to hold must be sabotaged without fail.

While seeing political parties

However, political parties registered with the Union Election Commission (UEC) of the SAC have pointed out that the upcoming election is not an exit for the SAC but an exit for the people, and that they need to be aware that if there is no election, they will have to live under the emergency provisions of the Myanmar Tatmadaw.

The people of Myanmar are currently facing disasters such as war, earthquakes, floods, storms, and diseases, as well as social, economic, health, political, and educational declines.