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Arquivo para November 10th, 2015

Myanmar tries to democracy

10 Nov

Myanmar held elections on Sunday, and although it has TheLady2made elections in 1990, when elections ensued a blow that made the opposition react without violence and that after there was a long democratic resistance to the present day, which was recorded in the film The Lady (Beyond Freedom), the real life of Aung San Suu Kyi, filmed in 2012.


The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to win a majority of seats in Parliament eligible. But it needs more than 67% of the votes to be able to form a government, since there is another 25% of seats are reserved for representatives of the army.


Participation should be around 80% of elections, ie, over 30 million voters voted.


The National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to win a majority of seats eligible in parliament, but needs more than 67% of the votes to be able to form a government, since there is another 25% of places are reserved for Army representatives. These should support the Party of the Union Solidarity and Development, successor of the military junta that ruled the country (renamed Myanmar) since 1962, and which came to power in 2011.


Suu Kyi, 70, is barred by the constitution to be elected president and succeed the former general Thein Sein, to have foreign children.


The opposition has already said that if you can most will be the power behind the new president.


25% of unelected MPs also prevent any constitutional changes without the support of the military