The country's military junta has disbanded 40 political parties, with Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States criticising Myanmar over threatening democracy.
That includes the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned following the 2021 military coup.
Myanmar's ruling junta on Tuesday disbanded Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and 39 other parties over their failure to meet a deadline to register for an election that is set to extend the army's grip on power. It said all stakeholders should be allowed to take part in the political process and warned their exclusion could lead to further violence and instability.
A spokesperson for Myanmar's military could not immediately be reached for comment. Its leader Min Aung Hlaing on Monday urged international critics to get behind his efforts to restore democracy.US State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters that the United States "strongly condemns" the decision to abolish 40 political parties.
And Japan's foreign ministry said the exclusion of NLD will only make it "even more difficult to improve the situation" in Myanmar. In a live broadcast late on Tuesday, state-run Myawaddy TV said 63 parties had registered at a local or national level, but it named 40 parties that were automatically disbanded for failure to sign up by Tuesday's deadline.
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