Political parties in military-run Myanmar on Tuesday kicked off their election campaigns, two months ahead of scheduled national polls that are widely seen as an effort to confer legitimacy on the military’s 2021 seizure of power, even as the country’s civil war precludes voting in many areas. Campaigning began just a day after U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, in a meeting with leaders of Southeast Asian nations, warned that the planned election could cause further instability and deepen Myanmar’s crisis. Fifty-seven parties have registered for the contest but Aung San Suu Kyi ’s National League for Democracy, which won the last two elections by landslides only to be ousted by the army, is not among them.