CNI News

1 August 2025

The upcoming elections in Myanmar are dangerous, Tai Leng (Shanni) Nationalities Development Party (TNDP) Chairman Sai Htay Aung told CNI News. 

The Union Election Commission (UEC) has announced that elections will be held in 267 townships in Myanmar between December 2025 and January 2026.

Political parties with strong public support, such as the National League for Democracy (NLD), the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), and the Arakan National Party (ANP), are not competing in the election. The upcoming election is very dangerous because the NLD is not included in the parties that will run the election, said the TNDP Chairman Sai Htay Aung.
 
"It's good that there is a law to protect elections. Election is politics without weapons. It's politics where parties say what they will do and then make promises and then act. If terrorist acts and killing with weapons emerge, then action will be taken against the culprits under this law. That's pretty good. The NLD was dissolved when it was not re-registered. The NLD is not contesting this year's election. The election we are going through is really very dangerous," he said.

Picture: While seeing the Election Protection Law

Some ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), the People's Defense Forces (PDF), the National Unity Government (NUG), and the Spring Revolution forces have announced that they will completely sabotage the elections scheduled to be held in December 2025 and January 2026. 

The SAC then issued the Law on the Protection of Multi-Party Democratic General Elections from Disruption and Sabotage on July 29, 2025.

The law stipulates that anyone who commits any crime such as disrupting, destroying, or causing death during an election can be sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison, or even the death penalty.