The Declaration is expected to be the last before the army is holding a long -off national poll this year.
The Mjanmar army has extended its outstanding state for another six months, while fighting for maintaining all fragile adhesion of power, with fighting on multiple fronts across the country.
The National Defense and Security Council, under the supervision of an army, renewed on Friday at a meeting in the Naypyidaw capital, the day before the four -year -old anniversary of the coup, which inserted the country into chaos after a decade of convincing democracy.
“All members of the National Defense and Security Council, including the general commander, as well as the acting president, decided to extend the Extraordinary State for another six months under Article 425 of the Constitution 2008,” the statement said.
“There are even more tasks to perform to successfully hold the general elections. Especially for free and honest elections, stability and peace are still needed,” said the state dead on his telegram channel, announcing the extension of the emergency rules.
Mjanmar was in discomfort of February 1, 2021, when the army seized power from the democratically elected government of the National Democracy League (NLD) and arrested its extremely popular leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Justifying a coup, the army claimed without evidence that NLD had committed a wide fraud from voters in the 2020 election that he had won the landslide three months earlier.
The army imposed a one-year state of extraordinary situations after seizing the government, spreading it in six months of the interval several times, as it brutally demolished the peaceful protest of the pro-democracy and struggled with ethnic armed groups and anti-anti-edI fighters who appeared in response to a coup.
The military commander min Aung Hlaing-Koji also serves as a self-proclaimed prime minister and the president of the country-he will take elections until August 2023, but he has repeatedly postponed this because of the increasingly intense armed rebellion that takes place throughout the country.
The Mjanmar army has suffered a number of harmful defeats in the north and west of the country since the end of 2023, in what the United States for peace described as the crisis of the “unprecedented ladder” for the military – which dominated the country’s policy since the 1960s.
Despite this restlessness, growing internal and external pressure means that it is widely expected that the army will hold long -standing national elections in late 2025 AD.
Opposition groups have committed themselves to violently disrupt the polls, which they condemn as an attempt to legitimize the military regime, which took power four years ago.
According to the military performance of the 2008 Constitution, the authorities are obliged to hold elections within six months of the abolition of the extraordinary situation, scheduled for July 31.
Richard Horsey, a Mjanmar advisor The Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera that most indications indicate the elections that were finally held later this year, with November traditionally a month in which polls take place in Mjanmar.
“A meeting of the National Defense and Security Council is scheduled for July 31, or it could reach the ad hoc meeting until then, in order to potentially declare the end of the extraordinary situation,” Horsey told Al Jazeera. “Then they have six months to organize polling stations.”
Horsey added that the end of the extraordinary situation and later elections imply “return to the government of military -drawn Constitution of 2008”, a move that would welcome members of the Myanmar Army and its main support of China.
“Return to the 2008 AD Constitution, hopefully, hopefully it will lead to a little more predictability and less random decisions [by Ming Aung Hlaing]”He said.
