The National League for Democracy (NLD) released a statement on 8 November, the second anniversary of the annulled 8 November 2020 elections that were resoundingly won by the NLD.

The statement criticised the junta’s annulment of the 2020 elections and said it would reject the results of the junta’s planned elections.

According to the statement 91 political parties participated in the 2020 election. Out of 1,117 constituencies nationwide the NLD won 920 of the constituencies and received 82.4 per cent of the vote.

It also pointed out that if there had been any doubts about the integrity of the 2020 elections there were official procedures laid out in the Union Election Commission's laws and bylaws that should have been followed, which the junta did not follow when it annulled the elections and forcibly took power in February 2021, claiming that voter lists were incorrect.

It said that the NLD would not recognise any future elections organised by the junta, saying that they would be ‘fake elections’.

The statement also pointed out some of the abuses committed by the junta since the February 2021 coup. These included violently breaking up peaceful protests, deaths in custody during interrogations, the burning down of houses, the murder of innocent civilians, the arrests of NLD members and parliamentarians and the destruction of NLD offices.

Many NLD members including the NLD president, Aung San Suu Kyi have been imprisoned and the statement called for their immediate release and encouraged world leaders to do the same.

It also called on neighbouring countries including members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other countries to help find practical solutions to the problems in Myanmar saying they should meet with Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss ‘practical solutions’ to improve the situation in Myanma