Coup Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, in an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, stated that while nationwide elections would not occur without peace and stability, he aims to conduct elections in as many available constituencies as possible.

"If the state is peaceful and stable, we have a plan to hold the election in relevant sections as much as we can even if the election is not held nationwide under the law”, he said.

The generals are facing their biggest challenges since the first ever coup in 1962, with a youth-led pro-democracy uprising morphing into an armed resistance movement after a lethal crackdown on a wave of protests.

The Junta has been fighting a resurgence of some of its oldest battles with ethnic minority armies in northern and eastern Myanmar, has also been committing systematic atrocities including massacres.

The coup regime has already had to postpone several previous schedules for holding elections as a result of mounting military setbacks and amount of constituencies under regime control constantly shrinking.

The Junta has repeatedly extended emergency rule every six months, citing the need to stabilize the country and crush its opponents, which it describes as terrorists.

It has deployed heavy artillery and fighter jets in an attempt to suppress the resistance forces and ethnic minority insurgents but is still losing more and more territories to the armed resistance.

According to the United Nations, over 2.3 million people have been displaced since the wake of turmoil following the coup.

Critics and Western countries have asserted that Myanmar's election would be nothing but a sham, pointing to the dissolution of more than 40 parties since the coup and prohibitive rules that make it challenging for new ones to form or challenge proxies of the Junta.

But the capacity for the Junta to even hold elections is more dubious than ever at  time when  many analysts are starting to question how much longer the regime hang onto power by force of arms alone?