NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday she was confident her opposition party would win Myanmar’s landmark elections if they are free and fair, but raised concern at the country’s overall progress towards democracy.The Nobel Peace Prize winner told AFP in an interview she expects her National League
By our correspondents
August 26, 2015
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday she was confident her opposition party would win Myanmar’s landmark elections if they are free and fair, but raised concern at the country’s overall progress towards democracy. The Nobel Peace Prize winner told AFP in an interview she expects her National League for Democracy will secure a majority in November. It will be the first nationwide poll the NLD has contested for 25 years in a country strait-jacketed for almost half a century under army rule. The party won by a landslide in 1990 but was barred by the military from taking power.
