The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a body of lawmakers elected in Myanmar’s 2020 general elections but ousted by the military during the Feb. 1, 2021 coup, called on the international community, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the U.N., to reject the regime’s 2025-26 elections in a statement on Nov. 8 – the fifth anniversary of the 2020 elections.
The National Unity Government (NUG) Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung and Humanitarian Affairs Minister Win Myat Aye led a CRPH delegation to the 151th general assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an international organization of parliaments of sovereign states, in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 19-23.
Zin Mar Aung told the assembly that regime elections will only “worsen the ongoing humanitarian crisis.”
She added that 6,800 civilians have been killed, and over five million have been displaced from their homes, since the coup.
The regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) has scheduled polls to begin on Dec. 28, continue on Jan. 11, 2026, and conclude on an unspecified date in January, in 274 of Myanmar’s 330 total townships.
The IPU continues to recognize the CRPH as its official partner in Myanmar.
