Suu Kyi wins Myanmar election

Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spent nearly 18 years under house arrest, she's barred from being president because her husband was British, and the military is keeping a quarter of seats in parliament for itself -- and even so, her National League for Democracy won so many seats in parliament she looks set to be calling the shots. She also won the last free vote in 1990, but the military ignored the result. The NLD won 887 seats, or 77.1%, providing Suu Kyi with a majority in both houses of parliament. The military-aligned USDP won only 117 or 10% of the seats.
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