YANGON, July 2 — Myanmar will hold its next general election on November 8, the country's election commission announced yesterday, in a test for the country's fledgling democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel laureate ushered her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide...
Myanmar will hold elections in November and current leader Aung San Suu Kyi is still popular despite failing to deliver on key promises.— Reuters pic
A political prisoner once hailed as a moral icon by western governments, Suu Kyi's image has been tarnished by a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's west that forced around 750,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh. But “Mother Suu,” as she is referred to by much of the country's public, remains a widely loved figure within Myanmar.
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