Myanmar Marches on with triumph of NLD
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: November 11 2015 -
With clear indication that National League for Democracy (NLD) is heading for a sweeping victory, Aung San Suu Kyi is confident that her party will take over the actual reigns of the country as the appointed President will have “no authority” anymore.
Aung San Suu Kyi said that the President will now have no authority and that he will act in accordance with the decisions of the party.
Her view is based on the logic that in any democratic country, it’s the leader of the winning party that becomes the leader of the Government.
If the current constitution stands on NLD’s way to assume democratic power, there has to be some arrangement made so that the same constitution can be amended.
Even before the results of all the parliamentary seats are yet to come in, the election has been billed as one of the most democratic polls in the last 25 years in Myanmar.
The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) has been in actual control of Myanmar since 2011 when the country began its transition from decades of military junta to a civilian government.
However, Myanmar’s general election has also been described as credible and transparent by the European Union Election Observation Mission.
It has been reported that the poll on Sunday last was well-organised and the electorate had a real choice between different candidates.
It has been reported that voters in Myanmar turned out in large numbers and exercised their franchise in well-run polling process.
Experts and observers have also noted that the existing legal framework does not fully provide for the conduct of genuine elections and there could also be some limitations of the democratic exercise.
A total of 6,038 candidates involving 91 political parties and 310 Independents contested for more than 1,000 seats at three levels of parliament in the just concluded Myanmar elections.
Of the total, 1,733 candidates ran for seats of the House of Representatives (Lower House), 886 for the House of Nationalities (Upper House), 3,419 for regional or state parliaments.
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