Aung San Suu Kyi has won Myanmar’s election 2015 and got Historic majority in parliament, ending half a century of dominance by the military.The National League for Democracy (NLD) has won more than the two-thirds and got power of Myanmar’s parliament, according to election officials.
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U.S. President Barack Obama called Myanmar President Thein Sein yesterday to congratulate him on successfully staging a historic general election in which democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi trounced the ruling camp. In the election held last Sunday, the NLD appears to have repeated its previous performance, winning an overwhelming majority of seats in both regional and national parliaments.
Despite a gradual loosening of the military’s grip in recent years, concerns remain about whether the junta will truly relinquish power.
Electoral authorities in Myanmar announced on Friday that Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) secured a majority in the nation’s parliament.
Suu Kyi issued an invitation on Wednesday for a meeting with the commander, along with President Thein Sein and House Speaker Shwe Mann. However, the readout from the call kept a slightly restrained tenor, a nod to the potential uncertainty of a power-sharing dynamic with the military.
So far, however, the signs are promising.
Aung San Suu Kyi does not have complete power and the army generals, who have amassed billions of dollars in wealth, will still control the most powerful ministerial portfolios – interior, defence and border affairs.
She has become increasingly defiant on the presidential clause as the scale of her victory has become apparent, making it clear she will run the country regardless of who the NLD elects as president. It is going to take months to make the transition and to swear in a new government, find a president and appoint a cabinet, none of whom will have a hand in governance before in their lives.
The next step will be for the parliament to elect the President, which is expected to take place in early 2016, after the new parliament is convened.
Thein Sein’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, which is made up of former military cadres, has been mauled at the election.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Welshman Ncube, has reportedly said the fall of Myanmar’s dictatorship was an indication Zimbabwe would one day be freed from the rule of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party.
The army is gifted 25 per cent of all parliamentary seats under a constitution scripted to ensure its stake in the future.
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Suu Kyi is one of the world’s most recognizable activists for Democracy having peacefully struggled against Myanmar’s military rule since her initial arrest in 1989. The dictatorship, with Suu Kyi in mind, inserted a clause into the constitution barring anyone with foreign-born children from serving as president.
