Myanmar Junta Cancels Results Of 2020 Election Won By Suu Kyi's Party

The junta has previously said it would hold new elections within two years, but has also threatened to dissolve the NLD.

Myanmar's junta on Monday cancelled the results of 2020 polls won by Aung San Suu Kyi's party, announcing they were not "free and fair" almost six months after deposing the Nobel laureate in a coup. Investigations had uncovered more than 11 million cases of fraud in the elections in which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy trounced the military-aligned opposition, the junta's election commission said. "They (the NLD) attempted to take state power from non-NLD parties and candidates by misusing Covid-19 restrictions," said commission chairman Thein Soe. "[It] was not free and fair, that is why the result of 2020 election is cancelled."