Voting The Asean Post Voting was underway in the philippines monday to elect a new president, with the son of former dictator ferdinand marcos the favourite to win the high stakes race and restore his family to the pinnacle of power.polls opened at 6:00 am (2200 gmt sunday), afp reporters said. As 2025 draws to a close, myanmar’s military junta announced its plan to hold a general election, the first since the 2021 coup, and invited the association of southeast asian nations (asean) to send election observers.
Early Voting The Asean Post Derided by most international observers and the myanmar diaspora as a sham, the recently concluded three phase elections in myanmar have entrenched military rule under a new constitutional. P hilippine foreign minister ma. theresa lazaro said on thursday that asean member states had not reached a consensus on whether to endorse the results of a controversial election in myanmar. Asean’s collective position on myanmar’s 2025 elections adds to the unprecedented earlier decisions limiting myanmar’s participation at asean summits and foreign ministers’ meetings and postponing myanmar’s 2026 chairmanship turn. As this year’s asean chair, malaysia took a principled and critical step by taking this long overdue position—an unequivocal denouncement of the junta’s sham election—on behalf of asean.
The Asean Post The Asean Post Asean’s collective position on myanmar’s 2025 elections adds to the unprecedented earlier decisions limiting myanmar’s participation at asean summits and foreign ministers’ meetings and postponing myanmar’s 2026 chairmanship turn. As this year’s asean chair, malaysia took a principled and critical step by taking this long overdue position—an unequivocal denouncement of the junta’s sham election—on behalf of asean. After a retreat of asean foreign ministers in late january, philippine foreign secretary theresa lazaro, also the asean chair’s special envoy on myanmar, clarified that the ministers had not reached a consensus “as of now”. Malaysian prime minister anwar ibrahim said on tuesday that leaders from the association of southeast asian nations (asean) regional bloc will consider developments in myanmar following the first phase of its election over the weekend. Cebu – asean does not recognise myanmar’s recent election held by its military government “for now”, given a lack of consensus on the matter within the grouping, said the philippines’ foreign secretary. “there is no consensus on endorsing these elections,” said ms theresa lazaro in a jan 29 press conference after the asean foreign ministers’ retreat held in cebu city, the. Kuala lumpur, malaysia — the association of southeast asian nations will not endorse elections in military ruled myanmar, malaysia's foreign minister said tuesday, citing concerns over the lack.
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