Myanmar’s 2025 Election: Rhetoric and Realities
Myanmar Studies Programme
The Myanmar junta is casting the upcoming elections as a “reset” and transition towards normalcy. Such rhetoric should be taken with a dollop of salt.

Myanmar Studies Programme
The Myanmar junta is casting the upcoming elections as a “reset” and transition towards normalcy. Such rhetoric should be taken with a dollop of salt.
Joanne Lin|Moe Thuzar
ASEAN needs to march to the tune of its own drummer and insist that Myanmar’s ruling regime toes the line, sham elections or not.
Sharon Seah
The protracted Myanmar crisis is now everyone’s problem. The time for ASEAN to act is now.
Surachanee Sriyai|Su Myat Thwe
The junta in Myanmar has announced elections starting in December 2025. The reality is that it has gamed the system in its favour.
Kai Ostwald
It is likely that Myanmar will hold its national elections soon. It is also likely that the polls will lack the basic requirements for parliamentary legitimacy or a national mandate.
Wai Moe|Kyi Sin
The passing of Myanmar’s acting president last week provides an occasion to contemplate his life and Myanmar’s future.
Su Mon Thazin Aung
The ruling military regime in Myanmar has only itself to blame for dismal levels of public trust in it two months after the massive earthquake that shook the country.
Jared Bissinger
The recent earthquake in central Myanmar threatens to deepen the country’s economic malaise.
Jared Bissinger
Myanmar’s violations of its international economic obligations contribute to inflation and increasingly impoverish the country’s population. They also threaten to diminish the impact of financial assistance for Myanmar’s recent earthquake.
Surachanee Sriyai|Moe Thuzar
Rendering immediate aid to Myanmar’s earthquake victims should be a straightforward exercise. However, four years of civil conflict and the potential for politicisation by the ruling junta of humanitarian assistance efforts should put all donors and parties on notice.