Suu-Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won around 80% of the contested seats in last week’s election, with a few results still outstanding.
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Report by Vijyender Sharma; Dharmshala: Writing to fellow Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to congratulate her on her party’s remarkable victory in the general elections in Myanmar, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday hoped that she will fulfill the aspirations of the people.
“This is quite incredible; nowhere else in the world is there such a gap between the end of the elections and the forming of the new administration and certainly it is something about which we should all be concerned”, she told reporters ahead of the elections.
There is however, somewhat of a view that this might not happen, with the norm, really not being the norm in a state that has generations knowing nothing other than military rule.
Only time will tell whether democracy really has won through, and a democratically elected government can last in Myanmar.
Myanmar President Thein Sein attends a meeting with representatives… Sri Lanka looks forward to working together with Myanmar in strengthening democratic institutions of our two countries.
Dealing with the Rohingya will be one of the most controversial – and unavoidable – of a long list of issues Suu Kyi will inherit from the current government.
The military rulers did not like the outcome of the election, annulled the election results and put Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
The process of choosing the next president will begin in January, when the new parliament gathers.
“I don’t think the ruling party will propose or legislate any controversial bills in this interim period that oppose the will of the majority of the public”, he said, adding that Parliament would still be under speaker Shwe Mann, who has good relations with Suu Kyi. I’d like to call on the [political] parties which were not elected in the elections to be involved in the extra parliamentary politics.
The military has already said it will abide by the election result. But they decided that they “can manage it now”, Clapp said, and they are prepared to hand the reins of government to the opposition, confident that the 2008 constitution assures the military’s continued grip on key levers of power.
She has said she will run the country anyway, through a proxy chosen by her party. It is a nation that has attracted vast inflows of foreign investment since 2010 – an estimated $7 billion – but where millions of people still live in poverty, around 70 percent of them working in agriculture.
But while voters may have chosen to sweep out the military old guard at the ballot box, the generals remain a potent political force. Government hospitals and schools have suffered from years of neglect.
In the Rakhine state, along the western coast of Burma, Buddhist nationalists have targeted and attacked Rohingya Muslims and destroyed their villages.
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“We will have to try very hard”.
