Aung San Suu Kyi NLD party wins Myanmar election

Aung San Suu Kyi NLD party wins Myanmar election securing nough parliamentary seats to form the next government, official results showed on Friday.

However, the military-aligned opposition challenged results, while rights groups criticised.

Aung San Suu Kyi NLD party wins Myanmar election

So far, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has so far won 346 seats.

322 seats needed to form the next government. Results from 64 more yet to be announced.

Myanmar has bicameral legislature needed to form a government.

The ruling party NLD declared earlier this week that its own tallies showed it had won a landslide victory.

NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told the AFP news agency that people clearly realised the need for the NLD to get enough votes to form a government on their own. “This would help “minimise political conflict”.

Confirmation of the comfortable win will be a welcome boost for Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate who has had a turbulent first term marked by a brutal 2017 crackdown on the ethnic Rohingya that is now the subject of a genocide investigation, a failure to make significant headway on the country’s myriad ethnic conflicts and now the coronavirus.