National League for Democracy supporters outside the party's Yangon headquarters on November 9. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)
National League for Democracy supporters celebrate the sweeping 2020 election victory outside the party's Yangon headquarter. (Frontier)

Rigging the system: the junta’s PR makeover

After suffering successive humiliating election defeats, the military is rewriting the rules in a bid to legitimise its illegal coup ­– but will anybody take the bait?

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