Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party on Monday Nov 09,2015 cheered in growing excitement as early results from Myanmar’s historic election boosted hopes of sweeping gains to carry it to power after decades of military dominance.
Election
authorities have so far released only a small fraction of the results,
but of the 36 announced the National League for Democracy has scooped
35, in a psychological boost to crowds of Suu Kyi supporters gathered in
front of her party headquarters in Yangon Monday evening.
The NLD,
which holds a tiny proportion of seats clinched in 2012 by-elections, is
shooting for 67 percent of elected seats in the national legislature to
be able to select a president and form a government.
That
would be enough to overwhelm the USDP and their military allies - who
are gifted 25 % of seats by a constitution scripted to ensure they
still have a major stake in the future.
The army backed USDP, or Union Solidarity
and Development Party, said it was ready for a wipeout in the commercial
capital Yangon, while several of its heavyweights - including its
chairman - lost their seats.
Myanmar’s
ruling party conceded defeat in a general election on Monday Nov 09,2015 as the
opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on
course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next
government.
“We
lost,” Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) acting chairman
Htay Oo told Reuters a day after the Southeast Asian country’s first
free nationwide election in a quarter of a century.
By
late afternoon, vendors outside the headquarters of the National League
for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon were selling red T-shirts with Suu Kyi’s
face and the words “We won”.
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