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On 29 January, the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) condemned the Myanmar military junta’s elections as illegitimate and urged the international community and ASEAN not to recognize the results, warning that doing so would worsen the political and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.
The text of the statement is as follows.
We have already officially declared our position that the illegitimate military junta, having unjustly seized power in Myanmar, possesses no mandate to conduct an election; therefore, the sham election they organized lacks legitimacy. In addition, the results of the 2020 General Election remain politically valid, and the revolutionary forces will continue to fight until the objectives of the revolution are fully realized.
Based on the scenes and information regarding all three phases of this recently conducted sham election, it is evident that was carried out through various unjust methods including threats and oppression against the public to prolong the military dictatorship, regulations aimed solely at retaining their power, vote rigging such as the manipulation of advance votes, and forced voting. However, the entire populace did not cooperate and overwhelmingly opposed it. This clearly demonstrates that these were illegitimate sham elections devoid of any public support.
We respectfully record and honor every single individual who, amidst the brutal oppression of the terrorist military junta, exercised their fundamental human rights, stood on the side of truth and wish, and expressed their opposition by boycotting these illegitimate sham elections.
If the international community recognizes and cooperates with the results of these illegitimate sham elections, it will not resolve Myanmar’s crisis but rather push it into a more complex and vicious cycle. Therefore, we demand that the international community refuse to accept the illegitimate outcomes emerging from the terrorist military’s sham elections. We further urge them to refrain from any actions that would lend legitimacy as the government of Myanmar to the ‘military-dominated scam government’ that will emerge from these illegitimate results.
We also earnestly urge ASEAN, as a regional organization, to issue clear and firm declarations completely rejecting the results of the terrorist military’s illegitimate sham elections and the resulting ‘military-dominated scam government,’ given the junta’s total disregard for the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus.
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