Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has won an absolute majority in the parliament, according to election results released Friday, a remarkable landslide that in effect ends five decades of military-led government. With 95% of seats decided, Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy had won 378 parliamentary seats as of late Friday, far more than the 329 required to control both houses of the legislature. The scope of the party’s victory in Sunday’s election — the freest in the Southeast Asian nation since the army took power in 1962 — has surprised even the NLD’s most optimistic projections. The party has won more...
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