YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar's junta is likely to hold elections in 2025, party officials told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday, even as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.

The military justified its Feb. 1, 2021 coup with unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in 2020 elections won resoundingly by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

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