Myanmar voters are expected to return Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy to power in Sunday’s second democratic election since the end of military rule.
Myanmar’s ruling party may, however, battle to maintain its comfortable parliamentary majority when it faces an electorate that will be passing judgment on its first five-year term, as well as a more organised opposition. The 2015 election delivered a landslide victory for the NLD.
About 38m people will be eligible to vote, including 5m first-time voters. Citizens older than 60 will be allowed to vote in advance to lower the risk of Covid-19 transmissions after a rise in transmission of the disease. Myanmar has reported more than 1,000 new infections a day in the past few weeks.