Polls Open for Myanmar's 1st Election Since Military Seized Power

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "It is critical that the future of Myanmar is determined through a free, fair, inclusive and credible process that reflects the will of its people," said the United Nations in Myanmar, adding the UN "stands in solidarity with the people of Myanmar and their democratic aspirations.
55% : EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar 's first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war rages throughout much of the country.
26% : "An election organized by a junta that continues to bomb civilians, jail political leaders, and criminalize all forms of dissent is not an election -- it is a theater of the absurd performed at gunpoint," Tom Andrews, the UN-appointed human rights expert for Myanmar, posted on X. The United Nations also said Sunday that Myanmar needs free elections.

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