Al Jazeera English Polls close in Myanmar as military holds first election since 2021 coup

Polls have closed in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup.
The heavily restricted election took place in about a third of the Southeast Asian nation’s 330 townships, with large areas inaccessible amid a raging civil war between the military and an array of opposition forces.
In Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, polling stations opened at 6am on Sunday (23:30 GMT, Saturday) before officially closing at 4pm (10:30 GMT).
Following the initial phase, two rounds of voting will be held on January 11 and January 25, while voting has been cancelled in 65 townships altogether.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports from Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon:

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