Aung San Suu Kyi’s party wins yet again in Myanmar
Yangon. The Myanmar general elections results are out. The ruling party, National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has won the elections by a considerable margin. Her party had also won the elections in 2015.
Myo Nyunt, NLD spokesman said that it had won more than the 322 seats in Parliament needed to form a government, based on data received from party agents at polling stations nationwide. He gave no specific estimate. The party had won 390 seats in the 2015 elections. He added, “For the people, for the party, this is such an encouraging election result.”
The number of available seats were 315 seats in the 425-member lower house and 161 seats in the 217-seat upper house of Parliament. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also recognized the election as an important step for Myanmar’s democratic transition but expressed concerns about the cancellation of voting in several states, including many people being barred from voting.
Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi has been often criticized for the Rohingya Muslims genocide but she had defended her country in the International Court of Justice by saying that the claims are ‘incomplete and misleading’.
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