Finally, ANFREL launched a Facebook page named “မဲေပး�ကမယ် Go Vote” in August 2020 as part of
its voter education campaign in the run-up to the 2020 elections. It aimed to improve the general
public’s political literacy by publishing digital educational material in a variety of languages, and has
gathered over 2,500 followers since then.
Election Observation
Domestic and international CSOs, as well as the diplomatic community and other governments,
continued to monitor and support the democratic transition of Myanmar through various activities and
programs including the observation of the 2020 general elections.
The UEC accredited 7,232 observers from the 13 domestic election observation groups which applied
for union-level observation while 985 observers were accredited from the 23 organisations which
applied for the state and region-level observation.
Aside from ANFREL, the Carter Center 113, the European Union 114, and the government of Japan 115
mounted sent international election observers in varying capacities to monitor the 2020 Myanmar
general elections. The UEC accredited a total of 61 international observers, 182 diplomatic observers,
and 58 people from election support providers (IFES and International IDEA).
113
https://www.irrawaddy.com/elections/carter-center-launches-election-monitoring-mission-myanmar.html
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/eu-sends-four-monitors-myanmar-polls.html
115 https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/japan-to-send-special-delegation-to-observe-2020-election
114
42