Myanmar Poll Results Annulled as Election Body Claims Fraud

Supporters of the National League for Democracy party hold portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi as they celebrate in front of the party’s headquarters in Yangon, on Nov. 9, 2020.Photographer: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images
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Myanmar’s military annulled the results of last year’s general election that was won in a landslide by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, saying it had misused its administrative power.

The move late Monday, five months after the junta seized power in a coup and jailed Suu Kyi and the former President Win Myint, follows the country’s military appointed election commission alleging on July 12 that nearly a third of all ballots in the poll were tainted.