November 15, 2015
hISTORY eNDS EVERYWHERE:
A Pro-Democracy Landslide in Myanmar (ADAM CHANDLER NOV 13, 2015, The Atlantic)
The overwhelming winner was Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy party (NLD) captured an outright majority in the country's parliament and is now free to choose its next president.The extent of the drubbing by the opposition was a major shock given the entrenchment of the military institution, which still allocated one-fourth of the seats in both chambers of parliament. Suu Kyi, both a Nobel Prize winner and once a longtime political prisoner, has also been constitutionally barred from holding the office of president because her children hold U.K. citizenship."Her party's sweep was so thorough that one candidate who died before the vote still defeated his ruling-party rival," The New York Times noted.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 15, 2015 8:29 AM