Observers say the vote, accompanied by a renewed crackdown on dissent, is meant to entrench the junta's power.

Nasry “Tito” Asfura, a conservative politician backed by US President Donald Trump, has been declared the winner of the Honduran presidential election, narrowly edging out right-leaning centrist Salvador Nasralla in a contest marked by allegations of foreign intervention and voting irregularities.

The military is framing the vote as a return to multiparty democracy after ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government four years ago.

Young voters were absent from Myanmar’s military-run poll while older voters dominated the turnout amid civil war, coercion claims and widespread skepticism over vote’s fairness.