Aung San Suu Kyi's party seals historic election win in Myanmar
Yangon
A QUARTER century after Myanmar's generals denied Aung San Suu Kyi an election win, she led her party to victory, ousting a military-linked government and edging the South-east Asian nation closer to full democracy.
The National League for Democracy secured 364 seats in the two houses of Parliament, enough to choose the country's next president without seeking support from any other political party, according to official results from the nation's election commission. The NLD victory was so thorough that the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has won just 40 races so far.
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