His name is not on the ballot, and his photographs don't appear on campaign posters. But one man looms large over the general election underway in Myanmar: junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government,

The military-backed party claims to have won 90 per cent of the available seats so far in a poll activists have derided as ‘engineered’.

Myanmar’s junta-led election is not free or fair. Yet despite banned opposition, mass displacement, and severe repression, the staged poll is already granting the military dangerous international

Myanmar’s junta pardoned over 6,000 prisoners, including ex-minister Ye Htut and model Nang Mwe San, amid a contested election widely condemned as a sham.

Voter turnout hits record lows in the first round of Myanmar's military-backed election, with the USDP claiming a predicted victory. Analysts dismiss the process as rigged ahead of the second round of voting on Jan.

In late December, Myanmar’s military rulers opened a month-long election that has been the subject of widespread criticism for excluding opponents of the junta that seized power almost four years ago.