Aung San Suu Kyi wins big in Myanmar's elections, but will it bring peace - or restore her reputation abroad?
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2020
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Simpson, A.
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Last weekend, a few hours after the US presidential election was called for Joe Biden, Myanmar voters started lining up for their own chance to decide whether the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, would return for a second term.With 5,643 candidates from 91 parties competing for 1,119 seats, at both the state and federal level, the country’s almost 38 million voters were asked to cast judgment on the last five years of NLD rule.After three days of vote counting, the ruling party has claimed a huge victory, likely extending its resounding wins from the 2015 general election.Under the military-authored constitution, a quarter of the seats in the national legislature are still reserved for military-appointed representatives, who generally vote as a bloc. The NLD, therefore, needed to win two-thirds of the elected seats to achieve a governing majority.
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Copyright 2020 the authors. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)