Aung San Suu Kyi’s party predicts landslide win in Burma elections
Five years after the country began democratic reforms, daily life in modern Burma is in the middle of rapid-fire transformation.
RANGOON, Burma — Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy predicted a landslide victory on Monday as tallying continued in Burma’s historic elections, with some in the military-backed ruling party beginning to speak of defeat.
For the second night in a row, supporters of Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party gathered in front of its headquarters in Rangoon, clapping, singing, chanting and waving red balloons to celebrate vote totals coming in from across the country that showed the NLD winning seats by healthy margins.
