The Joint Working Committee of National Unity Consultative Council and the National Unity Government (NUG) shadow government praised the decisions of political parties who decided not to register for the junta’s upcoming election.

A Joint Working Committee of the National Unity Consultative Council, an advisory body to the NUG, said in a 3 April statement, that the junta is trying to use the upcoming elections to overcome the ongoing political impasse, even as it continues to kill and torture citizens.

It accused the junta’s Election Commission of being no more than junta stooges and said the junta’s elections are a deception designed to obscure the current true situation in Myanmar.

The junta says that it wants a “genuine and well-disciplined multiparty democracy system” and that it opposes a federal democratic system.

The committee also rejected the Election Commission’s decision to dissolve 40 political parties that were legally registered prior to the coup but that had refused to re-register under the junta.

According to junta-friendly media sources 63 political parties have registered to take part in the upcoming elections.

No date has yet been fixed for the junta election.