Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar opposition party has won a crushing overall parliamentary majority in a historic election result after her more than quarter-century campaign against the country’s ruling generals
Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy on Friday has surged easily past the supermajority needed to trump the military’s guaranteed 25 per cent bloc in the legislature, a stunning nationwide performance that echoed its landslide win in a 1990 poll annulled by the then junta.
The party triumphed in a flawed but fundamentally robust poll on Sunday that energised millions of voters and set the country into new and uncertain democratic territory after almost five years of quasi-civilian rule dominated by the military establishment.