The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and more than 300 global union federations, trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from South East Asia and around the world on October 24 called on governments to outrightly reject the Myanmar military junta’s upcoming planned ‘sham’ election. The joint statement came ahead of the 47th ASEAN Summit, which started in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25.
The joint statement, issed as a collective show of force by human rights defenders, said the Myanmar military junta’s so-called ‘election’ planned for December 2025 was an illegal, fraudulent attempt to manufacture an illusion of legitimacy. It urges South East Asian governments attending the summit to recall how Myanmar’s military junta ignored the peoples decisive vote in 1990 and again organised illegitimate polls in 2010 to bolster it’s dictatorship.
