School teachers sit through polling station officer training at the Mingun monastery in Yangon's Insein Township on October 23. Now, nearly a dozen are being sued by the Union Solidarity and Development Party. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

Administrative disorder and COVID-19 fears mar election preparations

Unclear instructions from above, staff and budgetary shortages and the risk posed by the coronavirus have local election officials struggling to organise a safe and orderly vote.

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