{"id":11051,"date":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:24:23","slug":"myanmar-global-regional-and-national-unions-call-on-asean-to-reject-sham-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/?p=11051","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: Global, regional and national unions call on ASEAN to reject sham \u2018election\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 8.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #555555; background: white; font-weight: normal;\">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\u2019s upcoming planned \u2018sham\u2019 election. The joint statement came ahead of the 47th ASEAN Summit, which started in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25.<\/span><\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\" style=\"margin: 0in; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Roboto Light'; color: black;\">The joint statement, issed as a collective show of force by human rights defenders, said the Myanmar military junta\u2019s so-called \u2018election\u2019 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\u2019s military junta ignored the peoples decisive vote in 1990 and again organised illegitimate polls in 2010 to bolster it\u2019s dictatorship. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 8.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Poppins; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11052\" src=\"http:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/csm_ASEAN_Myanmar_a9078377ef-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/csm_ASEAN_Myanmar_a9078377ef-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/csm_ASEAN_Myanmar_a9078377ef-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fmetu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/csm_ASEAN_Myanmar_a9078377ef.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s upcoming planned \u2018sham\u2019 election. 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