Myanmar ruling party concedes defeat

[winnipegjets]

I want to know the answer too.

No clue why the powerful Junta willing to yield power.

You want info from SID or Stratfor?

 

[winnipegjets]

what a meaningless election. the army knew they are going to lose, they change the constitution before they agree to the election.
basically they still have the power. but she is just a puppet head. money will flow into the country , especially from usa, usa said freedom, fair election and democracy is equal to wealth like libya, syria and afghanistan etc.

Next time, the Burmese military will seek the help of LHL's Election Department to run an election that will guarantee the military will win. The Burmese military were too confident about the outcome.

 

[winnipegjets]

You want info from SID or Stratfor?

https://www.stratfor.com/regions/asia-pacific/myanmar

SID doesn't have good intel on Burma. The Thai intelligence has the best Burmese desk.

 

[yellowarse]

Despite the landslide win, it's going to be a rocky road to power-sharing between the NLD and the military and their cronies.

But one thing is sure: the Myanmese voters have more balls than Sinkies! In the long run this will bode well for Myanmar as they transition to a truly civilian govt.

 

[bigboss]

...power comes from the barrel of a gun ... learn from Chairman Mao ... see situation in right perspective...

 

[bigboss]

....But one thing is sure: the Myanmese voters have more balls than Sinkies! In the long run this will bode well for Myanmar as they transition to a truly civilian govt.

Sinkies got no balls but they got brains...pappies may be dumb but still not too bad, better than the neighbour up north and neighbour to the south when compared in size and natural resources. If pappies had taken pro-local sinkies policies, sinkie land is best in SE Asia. Unfortunately, pappies unable to see beyond tip of their nose.

 

[bigboss]

....When all seats contested SINKIES fear freak election result, got credible oppo candidates give only 30% support, WTF!

SINKIES truly deserved to become 3rd class citizens in SG and be bossed around by 3rd rate FTs.

Pappies won big because of new imported shitizens...locals mostly in working class and ordinary wage earners voted oppo parties. When all wards contested, all new shits got chance to vote and they voted pappies. They love pappies for giving them and their families to work and live in sinkie land, no NS, just walk in shits.

Why should new shits vote oppo parties? Nothing to gain. Why locals voted oppo parties? To whack pappies for their pro foreigners policies. In time to come, sinkie land will be divided into locals and new shits.

 

[Agoraphobic]

Suu Kyi is an old hand in this game (politics). She knows she has the popular support of the citizens, and is favoured by the international community. I think she knew this was coming her way. The Burmese are enthusiastic for this change, let's see how long this enthusiasm lasts and whether things change fast enough for them to remain happy on this path.

Cheers!

So the lady is being used to put up a pseudo road to democracy show but in actual fact is to con foreign investments?

 

[mojito]

Even if the NLD gets the majority it needs, Suu Kyi is barred from taking the presidency herself under the constitution written by the junta to preserve its power. Suu Kyi has said she would be the power behind the new president regardless of a charter she has derided as "very silly".

Yes. Very silly indeed, i agree.

 

[Picasso]

Suu Kyi’s party three seats from a landslide win in Myanmar election

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 12 November, 2015, 3:56pm
UPDATED : Friday, 13 November, 2015, 12:31am

Associated Press in Yangon

Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition appears on the verge of a landslide election win that could finally reset Myanmar. Photo: AFP

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party was on the verge of a formal victory on Thursday, as incoming results from Myanmar’s historic polls pointed to a landslide win for the pro-democracy crusader and a resounding rejection of military rule.

Attention was riveted on Thursday to what has been called “the magic number” for Suu Kyi’s party. The election commission announced more results, showing the National League for Democracy party needs just three more seats to acquire the 329 seats it needs for a majority in the 664-member, two-house Parliament.

Elections were not held in seven constituencies, meaning a simple majority can be reached at 329. The NLD has won 243 seats in the lower house and 83 in the upper house for a total of 326. More results were to be announced in the afternoon.

The military establishment has not formally conceded defeat but it has acknowledged the massive success of Suu Kyi’s party, and ensured that it will respect the final outcome of election results.

Suu Kyi’s party said on Wednesday it received a message from Information Minister Ye Htut on behalf of President Thein Sein congratulating it for leading the race for parliamentary seats in the November 8 election.

Ye Htut said the government will pursue a peaceful transfer of power “in accordance with the legislated timeline.” He was not immediately available for comment. Thein Sein is a former general who has led the military-backed government for the past five years.

The message helps ease lingering concerns that the military, which has a large influence over the ruling party, may deny the NLD power, as it did after elections in 1990.

Aung San Suu Kyi's popularity is clear at this tea and coffee shop in Yangon as her party reaches a pivotal moment in the historic election. Photo: AFP

It also means that Myanmar is likely to soon have its first government in decades that isn’t under the military’s sway. But while an NLD victory virtually assures it of being able to elect the president as well, Suu Kyi remains barred from becoming president by a constitutional provision inserted by the military before it transferred power to a quasi-civilian government in 2011.

Suu Kyi has declared, however, that she will become the country’s de facto leader, acting “above the president” if her party forms the next government.

She described that plan further in an interview Tuesday with Singapore’s Channel News Asia.

“I make all the decisions because I’m the leader of the winning party. And the president will be one whom we will choose just in order to meet the requirements of the constitution,” she said. “He [the president] will have to understand this perfectly well that he will have no authority. That he will act in accordance with the positions of the party.”

The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several pro-democracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government in 2011 – with strings attached.

It installed retired senior officers in the ruling party to fill Cabinet posts and gave itself key powers in the constitution, including control of powerful ministries and a quarter of the seats in the 664-member two-chamber Parliament. In a state of emergency, a special military-led body can even assume state powers. Another provision bars Suu Kyi from the presidency because her sons hold foreign citizenship.

While Myanmar’s people voted overwhelmingly Sunday to remove the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party from power, it’s clear that the army’s involvement in politics won’t end, and the NLD will need to convince it to cooperate.

NLD co-founder Tin Oo said on Tuesday that the party expects to win about 80 percent of the votes – putting it on pace with the party’s 1990 landslide that the military annulled. If the NLD secures a two-thirds majority of the parliamentary seats at stake, it will gain control over the executive posts under Myanmar’s complicated parliamentary-presidency system.

The military and the largest parties in the upper house and the lower house will each nominate a candidate for president. After Jan. 31, all 664 legislators will cast ballots and the top vote-getter will become president, while the other two will be vice presidents.