Myanmar’s ruling party concedes defeat to Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition in

“We lost”, said Htay O, the acting chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, in a Reuters report, at approximately the same time, though he noted he didn’t yet know the margin.

Opposition party of Suu Kyi has won more than 80 per cent of the General Election votes counted so far in the densely-populated central regions, NLD spokesman Win Htein said on Monday.

The Union Election Commission (UEC) is expected to publish the official results later on Monday.

However he called it a victory nonetheless: “Many of the parties and candidates that are standing in these elections are saying “well, I guess something is better than nothing”, and they are hopeful that that will be sufficient”.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry said the massive turnout, which could see opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party catapulted to power, was a “testament to the courage and sacrifice shown by the people of Burma over many decades”. With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday, November 8 in Myanmar’s historic general election that will test whether the military’s long-standing grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader Suu Kyi’s party expected to secure an easy victory.

A spokesman said the transition from the current government to the future administration “is going to have to be credible” if the USA and worldwide community is going to “provide the support to Burma its people need and leaders want”.

She has said she would be the power behind the new president regardless of a constitution she has derided as “very silly”.

The party is made up former junta members who ruled the country for half a century and as a quasi-civilian government since 2011. Seventy percent of seats will give a comfortable majority to NLD to form the next government. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy needed 67 percent of all contested parliamentary seats to gain a majority.

Suu Kyi, flanked by party patron Tin Oo and other party officials applauds from the balcony. In addition, the commission announced that the NLD had won 11 of 15 seats in four other regional parliaments. Despite her huge popularity, Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from becoming president because she has foreign children with her late British husband.

The charter also gives the armed forces the right to take over government under certain circumstances.