Election: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Seen Prevailing

Myanmar voters braved long lines Sunday and were expected to return Aung San Suu Kyi and her ruling National League for Democracy party to power in a country racked with civil war and struggling with a surge in the coronavirus pandemic.

Polling before the vote indicated Myanmar’s voters will give the former political prisoner and Nobel laureate a second five-year term, after she won office in 2015 on a platform of establishing civilian government after five decades of harsh military rule and ending long and costly wars with armed ethnic groups.

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