UPDATED: Junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing says 'necessary security arrangements' are still needed to vote. The state of emergency is extended for six more months.
CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Myanmar’s ruling junta has officially postponed an election promised by August this year after its 2021 coup, state television reported late on Monday, July 31.
“While holding an election, in order to have an election that is free and fair and also to be able to vote without any fear, necessary security arrangements are still needed and so the period for the state of emergency is required to extend,” read the junta statement on state TV. The overthrow of Suu Kyi’s elected government derailed a decade of reform, international engagement and economic growth, while leaving a trail of upended lives in its wake.
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